Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

[ d UD] – Utu 1 are connected to: Babylonian
[ d šà·máš] – Shamash 2 (Kasak, Veede 2001, 19); Hurrian
d Ši·mi·gi; Urartian d Šiwini – the Sun-god; Ugaritic d Šapšu – the
Sun-goddess (comp. Nozadze 2007, 323; DDD 1999, 126). The
sacred number of Utu is – 20 (Kasak, Veede 2001, 14, 18, 19).
According to the Egyptian mythology the Sun-god Re or Ra
was identified with: Egyptian
[ prỉ] Khepri – the rising
sun, god of the morning sun; Egyptian [ỉtm] Atum –
the setting sun (comp. Egyptian [ỉtn] Aten 3 /Aton – the
sun-disk). The deity Atum is similar to the Urartian solar god,
Shivini. The Sun-god Re was seen in the eight-petalled blossom
1 . Comp. man‟s name Utu in use today in Georgia, namely in Mingrelia.
2 . Comp. ša·maš: Akkadian šam·šu – sun-disk (Kasak, Veede 2001, 19);
Georgian [mze]; Mingrelian [bža]; Laz [mžo·ra] – the Sun
(Marr 1908, 3); Svan [məž] – the Sun (Fähnrich, Sarjveladze 2000, 327,
328); Laz [bža·čxa] – Sunday (Javakhishvili 1979, I, 164-169).
3 . The god Aten was connected by N. Gamrekeli (1885, 40) to Georgian
[at’en·i] (the name of the old village in Gori region, Eastern
Georgia).
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