Rebus compositions in Linear A?
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Barbara Montecchi
Abstract
This paper deals with some Linear A logograms which might have been occasionally used not because of their meaning, but phonetically, on the basis of the sound of the words underlying the signs, to spell out different words, in rebus compositions with one or more syllabograms. This would be the case with the logogram for wine (AB 131a) on two clay tablets from Agia Triada (HT 14.1 and 123a.3), the logogram for human (A 100/102) on several clay documents from different sites (HT 72, KH Wc 2100, and PE Zb 7), and the logogram for olives (AB 122) on stone tables KO Za 1 and SY Za 2. The last two examples imply the reappraisal of the debate about the uncertain reading of one sign on KO Za 1 either as AB 27 or 122. In this paper it is shown how the latter is the only one supported by paleography.
© 2023 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Abstract
This paper deals with some Linear A logograms which might have been occasionally used not because of their meaning, but phonetically, on the basis of the sound of the words underlying the signs, to spell out different words, in rebus compositions with one or more syllabograms. This would be the case with the logogram for wine (AB 131a) on two clay tablets from Agia Triada (HT 14.1 and 123a.3), the logogram for human (A 100/102) on several clay documents from different sites (HT 72, KH Wc 2100, and PE Zb 7), and the logogram for olives (AB 122) on stone tables KO Za 1 and SY Za 2. The last two examples imply the reappraisal of the debate about the uncertain reading of one sign on KO Za 1 either as AB 27 or 122. In this paper it is shown how the latter is the only one supported by paleography.
© 2023 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Aufsätze
- Woher kam der Mann von Ahhiya?
- Once again on the evolution of the Anatolian hieroglyphic script
- A Hieroglyphic seal from the cult centre of the city of Knossos (KN S (4/4) 01)
- Rebus compositions in Linear A?
- Some observations on the language of Linear A
- Micénico ka-ra-wi-ja ‘vieja(s)’ y la religión micénica
- Deux textes archaïques de Kato Symi (Biannos)
- Drei karische Verben
- A Lydian inscription from Denizli
- Un Phrygien sur l’Agora: redécouverte d’une inscription paléo-phrygienne
- Le dialecte grec de Pamphylie, supplément VII
