Digital enhancement of Linear A & B tablets: #6 Linear A tablet ARKH 2 (Arkhanes)

Digital enhancement of Linear A & B tablets: #6 Linear A tablet ARKH 2 (Arkhanes)

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Linear A seals: Part 2 + Minoan grammar, nominative singular masculine in u

Linear A seals: Part 2 + Minoan grammar, nominative singular masculine in u:



Linear A seal HM 570.1g confirms beyond doubt that the word situ is New Minoan, i.e. Mycenaean-derived for “wheat”, a tight match with Mycenaean sito.     But it establishes a lot more than just that. Since there are well over 200 Minoan     words, whether Old Minoan or Mycenaean-derived New Minoan, all of which terminate in u, the circumstantial evidence is very strong that u is the nominative masculine singular of Minoan nouns and adjectives regardless.  I have no idea what jetana means, as it is clearly Old Minoan.

A Minoan Linear A tablet from Archanes, Crete with the toponym Akanu

A Minoan Linear A tablet from Archanes, Crete with the toponym Akanu:



Here we have a Minoan Linear A tablet from Archanes, Crete with the toponym Akanu = modern day Archanes. This is Linear A term 101 in our Glossary of Minoan Linear A.

Cretulae with Linear (A?) script from Archanes, Minoan Crete, ca. 1500 BCE

Cretulae with Linear (A?) script from Archanes, Minoan Crete, ca. 1500 BCE:



I just discovered this highly unusual Linear (A?) tablet from Archanes, Crete, dated from ca. 1500 BCE. What makes it so unusual is the fact that there are 8 syllabograms and ideograms on it which I have never run across on any Minoan Linear A tablet. This raises the question,  is this tablet in Linear A? And if the script is a bizarre variant of Linear A or is not Linear A at all, is it still in the Minoan language? At the present juncture in the partial decipherment of Minoan Linear A, this tablet falls way beyond the pale. I see no hope for its decipherment in the near to not so near future.

But fascinating it surely is!