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

are the same as Georgians”.
A. Urushadze (1948, 224 96 ; 1964, 55), T. Mikeladze (1974,
72, 79-85, 164-168), T. Kaukhchishvili (1976-a, 589) and O.
Lordkipanidze (2000, 9 1 ; 1986, 43; 1989, 219) argue that /
– Aea/Colchis was situated at the east and south-east
coasts of the Pontus Euxinus (or the Black Sea), as is cleare
from the Ancient Greek sources.
Some of the Greek sources are considered below:
In Homer‟s Odyssey (XII, 1-4; also see: X, 135; XI, 70;
Perrin, Seymour 1897, 135; Dindorf 1855, II, 457, 135, 5-6) we
read:
”Now after the ship had left the stream of the river Oceanus,
and was come to the wave of the wide sea, and the isle Aeaea,
where is the dwelling place of early Dawn and her dancing grounds,
and the land of sunrising...” (Butcher, Lang 1900, 192).
”No doubt, the description given by Homer implies the place
situated in the Earth where the Sun rises... According to Greek
commentators, [resp. ] – Aeaea [Aeaeé] is the same
as – Aea but lengthened by one syllable... [These] four lines
imply that Circe’s Aea is not situated in West (at the Tyrrhenian
Sea), but in the East, in Colchis... Removing Aea to Etruria is the
product of later versions of the myth. Mentioning Aea (Colchis) as
the name of an island by Homer presents no obstacle. In ancient
times island did not always mean what it means today, but also a
land situated between the sea and rivers, the passage being only a
narrow stripe of land” (Urushadze 1964, 493 6 ; 1970, 350 11 , 355 29 ).
One more quotation from Odyssey (IX, 31-32; Perrin,
Seymour 1897, 77, 99):
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