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

(Meinekius 1849, 36, 16-18; Holstenius, Berkelius 1885, 24, 29-31):
”Aea: the town of Colchis, founded by Aeëtes, is 300 stadia
away from the [Black] Sea; two rivers are flowing round it
Hippus [Tskhenis-tsqali – river-horse] and Kyáneos [Tekhuri ?],
that turn the [town] into a peninsula…” (also see: Kaukhchishvili
1936, III, 274; Urushadze 1948, 218 29 and ff.; 1964, 230;
Lordkipanidze 2000, 15, Fig. 1).
Below the readings of some inscriptions found on the Crete,
also of Assyrian and Urartian inscriptions are presented.
The signs of line a7 of Linear A inscription on HT 117 (HM
1364) tablet – [KU-KU-DA-RA] 1 (GORILA 1976, I, 196-
197) were connected by D. W. Packard (1974, 146) to Myceneaen
Greek: [ko-ki-da] KN Sd 4403.a (L 128); KN So (1) 4430.a
(L 130) and [ko-ki-de-jo] KN Fh 5465 (141) (Evans 1952,
II, pl. XIV, 04.03; CoMIK 1990, II, 204, 216; DMic 2 ), that were
correspondingly read by O. Landau (1958, 72), S. Hiller (1991,
214, 214 53 ) and others as , – Colchis,
Colchian (comp.: Gordeziani 1999, 100; 2007, III, 470; Gordeziani
2009, 76, 76 7 , 77).
According to the latest researches, T. Gamkrelidze (1999;
2002, 45-46; 2004): ”The existance of Colchian state is assumed
to exist around the 15 th century BC, for in the Greek
inscriptions of Myceneaen epoch (the 15 th -14 th centuries BC)
many names that were known to us from the myth of
Argonauts – such as: the country Aea, Colchis, Jason
(Myceneaen Greek [i-wa-so] KN Xd 7756; PY An 519.8,
654.17, 661.3 (S657-H 1); PY Cn 655.6 (S719-H 1); Greek
, ), etc are attested”.
1 . Comp. the Myceneaen Greek masculine anthroponym [ku-ka-daro]
KN Uf (2) 836.b (122) (DMic 2 ; Younger 2008-2010).
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