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Gia Kvashilava
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Dedicated to Dr Herbert R. Zebisch
and Prof. Akaki Urushadze
On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and
of Related Scripts (1). Axe
This study concerns the graphic
character, semantic interpretation,
typological parallels, commentaries,
and reading of the Phaistos Disk
pictorial sign PHD15. 12
1. Graphical Character of the
Pictorial Sign PHD15
The Phaistos Disk pictorial sign
PHD15 is called pickaxe by Sir
Arthur Evans (1909, 277), mattock
– by L. Godart (1995), and axe – by
G. Ipsen (1929, 22), G. Neumann
(1968, 39-40) and others.
J. M. Eisenberg (2008, 18)
labels the Disk sign PHD15 as
pick, and he compares it with the Cretan hieroglyphic sign
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. This paper is the first (1) in the series of works that study every pictorial
sign of the Phaistos Disk and follow the general theory for my decipherment
of the Disk (see: Kvashilava 2007 and 2008).
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