The Origins of Writing, the Alphabet and the Syllable PI - LEXILINE JOURNAL 565

[In amended form later published as a book under the title Ancient Signs]

This is the 13th posting in this series (later updated for Luvian), and presents the Syllable PI in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".

The Syllable PI in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

PI (pé) Classical Greek πέλεκυς “pelekus”, a "double-sided" axe, later applied to all axes, also single/sided ones i.e. hemipelekus. Some... late neolithic, wanderwörter have been suggested, e.g. Sumerian balag, Akkadian pilakku- (spindle whorl), or PIE pelek'u- 'axe'. Sumerian balag means hour-glass shaped drum. The shape is the word root. (cont.)

Cypriot syllabary (reshuffle PE, PI, PO labels ?) 𐠡 PO (cont.) Pelekus will have the same root as pierogi (Latvian pīrags, “*bi-horned, *two horned”).

Linear B 𐀡(11) PI πέλεκυς an axe See the perplexed Oxford Introduction to proto-Indo- European on pelekus.

Phaistos Disk 𐇞 PI πέλεκυς an axe later as the symbol PHI

Axe of Arkalochori PELEKUS is the bottom word on the axe middle column. Found at icobase.com a Sumerian balag (hour- glass drum) right bottom

Elamite PI jar, cask πίθος Sumerian balag "drum" (Jaritz #649)

Sumerian PO (Jaritz #893) Thumb of hour-glass pithos image at Mathilda’s  Anthro- pology Blog