the signs "leg" From http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_hieroglyphs/egyptian_hieroglyphs_A.htm "The B Hieroglyph http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_hieroglyphs/images/hieroglyph_b.jpg
The foot and lower leg is used for the "b" sound"
Din http://reocities.com/proto-language/ProtoLanguage-Monosyllables.htm http://www.reocities.com/proto-language/SumerianSigns/SSHub2-88-146.jpg
"Here, we can point to Sumerian tu10 (for tû10), 'be weighty, massive', which is written with Jaritz #141 (probably, with the same meaning: *tû11), which depicts a 'left lower leg up to the bent knee', inside which is written, as a phonetic determinative, Jaritz #684, which reads tu2 ; this sign (Jaritz #141) is probably meant to symbolize 'stamping earth with the foot to compress and compact it'. "
Linear B syllable Mi http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Linear_B_Syllable_B073_MI.svg/40px-Linear_B_Syllable_B073_MI.svg.png
and http://www.aug.edu/~nprinsky/Humn2001/evolu-of-b.GIF
B(eth):"house"
This house sign seems to appear also in this tablet also from Gradeshnita, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Vratsa-history-museum-Gradeshnitsa-tablet-back.jpg/150px-Vratsa-history-museum-Gradeshnitsa-tablet-back.jpg
Maybe coul have the sign of fertility (the point=seed) into the house (home, family).
Note that we have NO garden, plant or cultivated field wich was reprezentet in neolithic as a grid.
Now the Linear B syllabogram Su http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Linear_B_Syllable_B058_SU.svg/40px-Linear_B_Syllable_B058_SU.svg.png
From http://reocities.com/proto-language/ProtoLanguage-Monosyllables.htm A second sign for FA with the meaning 'leaf/grass' is seen in Jaritz #593, u2 (for *û2; but also unknown dialectal *ü for FE). It depicts a 'section of grass/thatch'; and means, in addition to 'leaf/grass': 'food, pasture, plant(s), herb, (flat) bread, loaf (derived from [flat] bread) http://reocities.com/proto-language/SumerianSigns/SSKush3-318-593.jpg
Semnul "frunză, iarbă, pajişte, plante, pâine" The sign II Notes to the Hieroglyphic Signs http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/Hiero/SignNotes.html 066 = ? The sign occurs four times only (its reading on the seal #204 is doubtful); it probably is a divider. |
It seems that the writer used many times a sign like proto-sinaitic http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/protosinaitic.gif/proto-canaanite http://www.crystalinks.com/canaanitealph.gif sign of letter beth. Or if you want, egyptian heth http://www.seansgallery.com/images/egyptian_1c.gif (like in heth-Hor=Hathor). Possible the writer wanted to express the notion of shelter/house.Also we can see there signs simylar to proto-sinaitic gimmel.We can have also some proto-sinaitic lamedh and zayin and/or heth (the latter Z and H are those paralel lines).Note that is possible that the writer wanted to evidence or underline the beth signs with double line/contour. So the writer possible wanted to express GEB: "earth"/"egyptian earth-God Geb or Seb"/"pit,trench" or even GeB-aL wich is the same town with BaB-eL:"God-gate" = greek ByBLos. On the reverse side of the tablet, possible we have something related to a fertility ritual (of the field/house/shelter).From neolithic time, the purpose of the dots inside a geometric figure was like sowing with seeds, so fertilityRau Eugen 19:09 1December 2012(UTC)