Linear A tablet HT 88 (Haghia Triada) dealing with figs with Mycenaean superstrate vocabulary

Feeds:: Posts; Comments

« Prehistoric Anatolians,Learned to Farm 10,000 Years Ago.

Forget Wheat: Americans’ Taste for Ancient Grains Is Growing »

Linear A tablet HT 88 (Haghia Triada) dealing with figs with Mycenaean superstrate vocabulary

April 9, 2018 by Ancientfoods

This one is on figs…my favorite

Canadian Zen Haiku canadien ISSN 1705-4508

Linear A tablet HT 88 (Haghia Triada) dealing with figs with Mycenaean superstrate vocabulary:

HT 88 kikina-01 datare figs

Linear A tablet HT 88 figs The partial decipherment of this Linear A tablet HT 88 (Haghia Triada) has until now eluded me. However, upon close examination of several words on the tablet, namely, ADU, KIKINA, KIRO, KATI, DATARE and KURO, I discovered that all of them are susceptible to interpretation as Mycenaean superstrate words. Their translations are given on the tablet as illustrated above. As for the words KUPA3NU, PAJARE and SAMARO, these all appear to be Old Minoan (OM), i.e. belonging to the Minoan substrate language, i.e. the original Minoan language. Unfortunately, since no one has yet successfully deciphered the Minoan language (= Old Minoan/OM) per se, I cannot decipher these words. But they obviously are crop-related words having something specific to do with sweet liquor, wine, figs and dates.