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

Mingrelian [aia] – 1. aea, the name of some plant
(Кipshidze 1914, 193 (397)); flower (Antelava 2006, 5); 2. a
name of woman (Chanturia 2006, 13).
In the earlier chapters of my work (Kvashilava 2008, 253-254;
www.kvashilava-gia.com) the algorythm 5.2.1-5 for reading the
pictorial signs of the Phaistos Disk is presented that is based on the
horizontal or vertical positions of the signs. For the signs of the Sun
and star, for eight-petalled rosette PHD38, for the hieroglyphic
signs of the Cretan script: 315[1] ARCH S (2/14) 01/CMS II, I,
391 and F21DE (261[11]CR(?)S(3/3)09/CMS XII, 110), and the
Linear A sign A044/F0672 no vertical or horizontal positions can
be considered. So, according to algorythm rule 5.2.5 and the data
given above, these symbols are read by me as a whole two-syllable
word: Proto-Kartvelian-Colchian * [*aəa].
J. Bigaj (2008, 22, 36) connects sign PHD38 to Greek
flower, and Greek star; he compares this symbol to
the Cypriot script sign [a] and reads it as [a]/[ai] syllable.
Such reading is also supported by the fact that the Linear A
sign A044/F0672 is the ligature of the Cypriot script signs
[a], [i], [e] and [sa], also of the Linear B sign [i]; so I
read it as [a-i-e-sa] that may be Greek – Aea.
Of great interest are also the signs (GORILA 1985, V, 64-
65; also see KH 97a.1: Younger 2008-2010) given in line d of
Linear A inscription of archaeological material SY Za 2 (HM
3429), because A008/F0615 and A057/F0692 are rotated 90 0
from the initial position (see sign : Evans 1895, 80, Table I, 8);
i.e. the signs are vertical. According to rule 5.2.2 of the algorithm,
(Greek Lyric, 5, Anonymous, Fragment 931; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.19 ff.;
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12; Flaccus V, 245 ff.; www.theoi.com), the
Greek goddess of love and beauty (Homer, Iliad, XXIII, 186; Owen
1851, 444; Clapp 1899, 234, 234 186 ; MHM 1991, I, 132), and
(Homer, Iliad, I, 477; Owen 1851, 29; Mimnermus, Nanno, Fragment 12) –
to the rosy-fingered Greek goddess of the down Eos.
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