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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<strong>On</strong> <strong>Read<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>Pictorial</strong> <strong>Signs</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Phaistos</strong> <strong>Disk</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Related</strong> <strong>Scripts</strong> (2). <strong>Rosette</strong><br />
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<strong>Gia</strong> <strong>Kvashilava</strong><br />
www.kvashilava-gia.com<br />
giakvashilava@yahoo.com<br />
Dedicated to Dr Herbert R. Zebisch<br />
<strong>and</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>. Akaki Urushadze<br />
This study concerns <strong>the</strong> graphic<br />
character, symbolic mean<strong>in</strong>gs,<br />
typological parallels, commentaries<br />
<strong>and</strong> read<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>Phaistos</strong> <strong>Disk</strong> pictorial sign<br />
PHD38.<br />
1. Graphical Character <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>Pictorial</strong> Sign PHD38<br />
The <strong>Phaistos</strong> <strong>Disk</strong> pictorial<br />
sign PHD38 is called marguerite,<br />
star-anemone or rosette<br />
by Sir Arthur Evans (1909, 279;<br />
1921, 660 2 ); blossom – by K. Aartun (1992); lotus – by O.<br />
Dettmer (1989); marguerite <strong>and</strong> rosette – by L. Pernier (1908,<br />
297); rosette – by G. Ipsen (1929, 2), L. Godart (1995, 81), V.<br />
Kean (1990), D. Ohlenroth (1996), K. Sor<strong>in</strong>g (1997), J. M.<br />
Eisenberg (2008, 19) <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs.<br />
The signs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g scripts are similar to <strong>the</strong> <strong>Disk</strong> sign<br />
PHD38:
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