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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– “... <strong>and</strong> likewise too, guileful Circe <strong>of</strong> Aeaea 1 , would have<br />
stayed me <strong>in</strong> her halls, long<strong>in</strong>g to have me for her lord” (Butcher,<br />
Lang 1900, 135), Eustathius <strong>of</strong> Thessalonica (Eustathius 1825,<br />
321, 1614, 14-19; Kaukhchishvili 1970, VIII, 2; Urushadze<br />
1964, 183; 1970, 355 29 ) <strong>in</strong>terprets <strong>the</strong> l<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g<br />
way:<br />
“Aeaea [is used] <strong>in</strong>stead <strong>of</strong> Colchis accord<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> place. Aea is mentioned as a town <strong>in</strong> Colchis by o<strong>the</strong>rs, <strong>and</strong><br />
also by Lycophron. 2 The citizen-man <strong>of</strong> it is called Aeaeos, <strong>the</strong><br />
citezen-woman – Aeaea, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Circe‟s isl<strong>and</strong> [is called] Aeaea<br />
1 . The epi<strong>the</strong>t <strong>of</strong> both Circe (Perr<strong>in</strong>, Seymour 1897, Vocabulary, 3; Smith<br />
1896, 15), a sister <strong>of</strong> Aeëtes, <strong>and</strong> Medea, a daughter <strong>of</strong> Aeëtes, is Aeaea, <strong>the</strong><br />
word derived from Aea, <strong>the</strong> country where her fa<strong>the</strong>r Aeëtes ruled (Smith<br />
1869, I, 23). E.g., (Homer, Odyssey XII, 268, 273; Eustathius<br />
1828, 15), (Scholia to Odyssey IX, 32; D<strong>in</strong>dorf 1855, II, 408,<br />
32, 14-19; Apollonius <strong>of</strong> Rhodes IV, 559; Merkel 1854, 234) – Aeaean Circe<br />
(Urushadze 1964, 177; 1970, 278, 279);<br />
(Apollonius <strong>of</strong><br />
Rhodes III, 1136; Merkel 1854, 190) – Aeaean Medea (Urushadze 1970,<br />
234, 235).<br />
2 . Also see: Strabo I, 2.39; Schol. ad Eurip., Medea 2; Schol. ad. Apoll.<br />
Rhod. II, 417; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 1024; EGF 1877, I, 189; Eustathius 1828,<br />
15; Bachmann 1830, 327, 1011-1046; Merkel 1854, 414, 417, 25-26; Jones<br />
1960, I, 166-167; Urushadze 1964, 195, 238, 240, 304, 310, 325, 414.<br />
313
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