![]() In this particular case, the reason, I believe, is apparent. ![]() But why even bother noting this, when it is obvious that the ideogram in question is in fact that for an amphora? Again, I repeat, the Mycenaean scribes never used any device without a reason. the first syllable of the Mycenaean word apiporewe, unequivocally identifying the vessel as an amphora. For instance, the syllabogram a inside the ideogram for a vessel with 2 handles is the first syllabogram, i.e. They always describe an actual attribute of the ideogram. Attributive dependent supersyllabograms always appear inside the ideogram which they qualify, never adjacent to it. ![]() Following is the text of my discussion of the standard use of the SSYL A for amphora from this article: Yet the most astonishing characteristic of supersyllabograms in the pottery and vessels sector of the Minoan-Mycenaean economy is this: the majority of them are attributive, and dependent on the ideograms they qualify. This, the standard use of A as a supersyllabogram for vessels, is fully documented in my article, An Archaeologist’s translation of Pylos Tablet TA 641-1952 (Ventris), with an introduction to supersyllabograms in the vessels & pottery Sector in Mycenaean Linear B, to be published in the February 2016 issue of Archaeology and Science (Belgrade) ISSN 1452-7448. Supersyllabogram A for amphora with the aromatic and dye saffron UPDATE Introduction: The supersyllabogram A for amphora is usually associated with vessels, and in that context it means that the vessel concerned is clearly an amphora, as illustrated below:
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