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

the oak‟s rough branches... For such was the mind of Hera, that
Aeaean Medea should come to sacred Iolchos, to the bane of
Pelias, leaving her own country... But Aea still abides steadfast,
and the children of those [Egyptian] men, whom that king [Pharaoh
Sesostris] did plant therein to dwell there 1 ; these men
preserve writings of their fathers, graved upon pillars, whereon
are all the ways and limits of sea and dry land, far and wide, for
those who come thither.” (Coleridge 1889, 66, 95, 158, 137;
Urushadze 1970, 351 7 , 352 8 ).
A scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes‟ Argonautica (Schol.
ad Apoll. Rhod III, 1074, 1093; Merkel 1854, 474, 1074, 28-30;
476, 1093, 1-3; Urushadze 1964, 330, 257) gives the following
explanation about the name of the island – Aeaea:
”In Phasis there is the island Aeaea where the fleece was
kept. [Aeaea] is the capital of Colchis”;
”The name of the island, Aeaeés is one syllable ae longer,
because it is the island of Aea. Aea is the capital of Colchis. The
island is mentioned in Phasis where, according to Pherecydes of
Syros [was] the fleece”.
Stephanus of Byzantium writes on Aea in his Ethnica
1 . ”Aea is still there – [Argos] says that Aea stands unshakable and its
inhabitants are descendents of the people [of Egyptians] brought to settle
there by Sesostris [Egyptian
– Sesonkosis] …”
(Schol. ad Apol. Rhod. IV, 277; Merkel 1854, 497, 277, 6-8; Urushadze
1964, 332). Comp.: Herodotus II, 103-105; Pliny the Elder XXXIII, 15, 52
(Bostock, Riley 1857, 93-94); also see: Lamberti 1991, 14-15.
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