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

storeroom at the edge of Oceanus where god-like Jason went”.
In the 8th c. BC Eumelus of Corinth (Corinthiaca 2; Schol. ad
Pind. Ol. XIII, 74; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 174; EGF 1877, I, 188,
189; Urushadze 1964, 194, 2a; 195, 2b) and Pindar (Wheelwright
1830, 104, 21; Colin 1841, 187, Str. 10; Urushadze 1964, 203,
Pythian IV, 15-22; 213, Str. 10, 210-215) – in the 6 th -5 th centuries
BC – mention the name of the country at the east coast of Black
Sea – Colchis 1 (Urushadze 1948, 224 1 , 23; Smith 1854, I, 642-
643).
Herodotus (I, 2; VII, 193, 197) wites:
”The Argonauts sailed in a long ship to Aea of the
Colchians and the river Phasis and when they had done the rest
of the business for which they came, they carried off the king‟s
daughter Medea... They were sailing to Aea in Colchis for the
fleece... Cytissorus came from Aea in Colchis...~ (Godley 1920,
4-5; 1938, 510-511, 514-515).
1 . For – Colchis or – Colchian see, e.g., Herod. I, 104; II,
104; Lycophr., Alexandra 1022 (Bachmann 1830, 215; Urushadze 1964, 301);
Strabo XI, 2, 17-18 (Kramer 1852, 10, XI, 2, 17-18); Schol. ad. Apoll. Rhod.
III, 1040 (Merkel 1854, 474, 20-23); etc. - (Suida 1705,
II, 341) – Colchis - Lazistan.
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