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

ecause of Circe. By the way, if the name of the island Aeaea
was initially double ae, the Circe of the place had to have the
third ae for it to be Aeaeaeé, but because of its bad sound and
the mentioned homonymy, it is not used; the geographer [Strabo
1 ] names the town Aea at Phasis, meaning that this Aea in
Colchis is also situated near the Circe’s island Aeaeé”.
In his scholia to IX, 32 a commentator of Odyssey (Dindorf
1855, II, 408, 32, 14-5) writes: ”
” – ”Aeaea is [known] as a town in Colchis” (Urushadze
1964, 177). He thinks that Circe‟s home Aeaea is not
situated near the seaside in Central Italy, Tyrrhenia (Etruria)
(Urushadze 1964, 493 8 ).
In Mimnermus‟ Nanno (Fragment 11; Diehl 1954; Urushadze
1964, 201, 202) we read:
”Even Jason could never take the great Fleece from Aea,
though he travelled a heavily-burdened way to fulfill Pelias‟ hard
wish-order, neither could [Argonauts] reached the Oceanus‟
beautiful waters [without the help of Medea‟s love]... 2 Here,
Aeëtes‟ town, where the rays of swift Hélios lay in a golden
1 . Strabo I, 2, 10, 39; see Hamilton 1854, 31-32, 72.
2 . “In square brackets the missing words reconstructed by G. Kaibel (1887, 510)
are enclosed; for this he used the lines from Apollonius of Rhodes‟ Argonautica
II, 2-3: ... – “due to Medea’s
love, Jason took the Fleece [from Colchis] to Iolkós” (Urushadze 1964, 301 * ;
1948, 110; 1970, 176, 177). Comp.: Hesiod‟s Theogonia 992-996 (Evelyn-White
1914, 14; Urushadze 1964, 187); Strabo I, 2, 40 (Hamilton 1854, 73).
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