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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”For Colchian Aea lieth at <strong>the</strong> uttermost end <strong>of</strong> Pontus <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> earth. ... And as <strong>the</strong>y sailed, <strong>the</strong>re came <strong>in</strong> sight a bay <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
sea, <strong>and</strong> before <strong>the</strong>m rose up <strong>the</strong> steep cliffs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caucasian<br />
mounta<strong>in</strong>s, where Prome<strong>the</strong>us was feed<strong>in</strong>g with his liver an<br />
eagle, swoop<strong>in</strong>g back aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>and</strong> aga<strong>in</strong>, his limbs fast bound to<br />
<strong>the</strong> hard rocks with b<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> brass, unbreakable... At night, by<br />
<strong>the</strong> skill <strong>of</strong> Argus, came <strong>the</strong> Argonauts to <strong>the</strong> broad stream <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Phasis <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> uttermost ends <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sea... Upon <strong>the</strong>ir left h<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong>y kept steep Caucasus <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cytaean 1 town <strong>of</strong> Aea, <strong>and</strong><br />
1 . In Greek sources <strong>the</strong> forms: , , , , ,<br />
, , , <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r are also presented (see:<br />
Lycophron 1312; Bachmann 1830, 335, 1312; Merkel 1854, 99, 399, 403;<br />
413, 399, 26-27, 32, 34; Schol. ad. Apoll. Rhod. II, 399; Orpheus 1764, 116,<br />
819; Eustathius 1825, 161, 1493, 49; 1828, 275; Suida 1705, II, 404); <strong>the</strong><br />
related <strong>Georgian</strong> words are:<br />
[k h ut h a-is-i, k h ut h a-GEN-NOM];<br />
Imeretian [k h ut h e-is-i, k h ut h e-GEN-NOM]; M<strong>in</strong>grelian<br />
[k h ut h e-š-i, k h ut h e-GEN-NOM]; Svan [k h ut h -āš, k h ut h -GEN]<br />
(comp.: Kaukhchishvili 1964, 50; Urushadze 1964, 6, 28, 66, 103, 138, 182,<br />
295, 296, 301, 304, 310-312, 324, 325, 474, 481, 493 12 <strong>and</strong> ff.; 1970, 28-30,<br />
317
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