Minoan Linear A silver pin at the A.Y. Nickolaus Museum, Crete & the word for “silver”:The Minoan Linear A silver pin at the A.Y. Nickolaus Museum, Crete apparently contains one of two possible words for “silver”, these being either awapi or tazasa. There is a third word on this tablet, adara, which might have meant “silver”, except for one mitigating factor: I have already deciphered the word adaro as meaning “barley” in our Minoan Linear A Glossary, and adara is too close for comfort. So I have had to eliminate it as a candidate for “silver”. This tablet also features 5 multi-syllabic words which are almost certainly eponyms (personal names). These are: Dadumine Qami*47nara Tesudesekei Tititeqati Tateikezare This brings the total number of of Minoan Linear A words I have deciphered, more or less accurately, to 134, which represents 26.8 % of all intact Minoan Linear A terms in Prof. John G. Younger’s Linear A texts in phonetic transcription. Cf. Chris Tselentis, akuro = silver in Mycenaean Linear B.
Minoan Linear A silver pin at the A.Y. Nickolaus Museum, Crete & the word for “silver”
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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