Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)
This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.
This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.
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A008/F0615 axe is read <strong>the</strong> first syllable * [*a] <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Proto-<br />
Kartvelian-Colchian form * · [*a·rganə] (<strong>Kvashilava</strong> 2009,<br />
332-333), <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> sign A057/F0692 might supposedly be read as<br />
* [*əa]. Consequently I read as * [*aəa].<br />
L<strong>in</strong>ear A <strong>in</strong>scription KN Za 18 (HM 2597) found on <strong>the</strong><br />
Crete, <strong>in</strong> Knossos<br />
1982, IV, 12-13), reconstructed by me as<br />
(GORILA<br />
, accord<strong>in</strong>g to rules 5.2.2 <strong>and</strong> 5.2.5 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
algorithm is read by me as /* - - -/// - -.-//-.-//<br />
[/*əa-a-əa aəa-/// əa əa- wa-.-//-.-//] – “... Violet-<strong>Rosette</strong>,<br />
Aea(deity)- ... Violet, Violet-...”, a religious refra<strong>in</strong> 1 that might<br />
be connected to <strong>the</strong> cult <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> deity Aea.<br />
Accord<strong>in</strong>g to rule 5.2.2 <strong>of</strong> my algorithm, only <strong>the</strong> first syllable<br />
* [* wa] <strong>of</strong> signs CH037/F209A <strong>and</strong> A054/<br />
F068B houses are read <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Proto-Kartvelian-Colchian form<br />
* · [* wa·daə]. Form * · [* wa·daə] is <strong>in</strong> regular<br />
corespondence with M<strong>in</strong>grelian * [* ode] > [ ude] –<br />
house 2 on <strong>the</strong> basis follow<strong>in</strong>g processes: 1. Contraction -* >-<br />
[-*aə>-e] where -* [-*ə] is <strong>the</strong> nom<strong>in</strong>ative case end<strong>in</strong>g (comp.:<br />
Kipshidze 1914, 08(60); Deeters 1926, III; 1927, IV, 68; Chikobava<br />
1936, 30; Topuria 1954, VI, 448, 450-451; Gamkrelidze,<br />
Machavariani 1965, 165, 165 2-5 , 166, 166 3 ; <strong>Kvashilava</strong> 2008,<br />
259); 2. * > [*wa>o] (comp. Gamkrelidze, Machavariani<br />
1965, 43); 3. > [o>u] (comp.: Gamkrelidze, Machavariani<br />
1965, 289, 289 3 , 290-291; <strong>Kvashilava</strong> 2009, 329).<br />
1 . Comp. <strong>the</strong> refra<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Georgian</strong> folk song Krimanchuli: [iaouao]<br />
– eao-wao.<br />
2 . Comp. Proto-Kartvelian-Colchian * - [* wad-aə]: Common-Kartvelian<br />
* - [*q’wed-] (Fähnrich, Sarjveladze 2000, 535-536; Chikobava<br />
1936, 19). Comp. M<strong>in</strong>grelian [ ude]: <strong>Georgian</strong> [oda] – house.<br />
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