Scripts and symbols of the Aegean world

Aegean, version 7.42, July 2014, Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts, George Douros

Aegean

Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended,some Punctuation and other Symbols,Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers,Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols,Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Lydian,Old Italic, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Old Persian,Linear A, Cypriot Syllabary andAncient Greek Musical Notation.

Phrygian, Sidetic,the Arkalochori Axe,signs on Troy vessels andthe Dispilio tablet.

Cretan Hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoanare covered by separate fonts

Local variants of Ancient Greek and Old Italic alphabets.

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Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scriptshttp://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/George Dourosg1951d@teilar.gr

Bibliography

Arthur J. Evans, Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script, London New York, 1895The Mycenaean Tree And Pillar Cult, London, 1901Scripta Minoa The Written Documents Of Minoan Crete, volume I, The Hieroglyphic And Primitive Linear Classes, Oxford, 1909, SM IThe Palace Of Minos At Knossos, volumes I IV and index, London, 1921 1936, PM I IVThe Ring Of Nestor, London, 1925Scripta Minoa The Written Documents Of Minoan Crete, volume II, The Archives Of Knossos, Oxford, 1952, SM II

John Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, volumes: 1 (00011063), 2 (10644499), 3 (50007999), 4 (80009947), Cambridge University Press

Luis Godard et Jean-Pierre Olivier, Recueil des Inscriptions en Linaire A, cole Franaise dAthnes, tudes Crtoises XXI: volumes 1-5, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner (De Boccard, dition-Diffusion), Paris, 1976-1985, GORILA

Polymnia Muhly and Jean-Pierre Olivier, Linear A inscriptions from the Syme sanctuary, Crete, Archaiologiki Ephemeris 147, pp. 197-223, 2008. Sign AB048 is here read and shown to also appear in Linear A; this sign was originally thought to only occur in Linear B.

Christos Boulotis, Les nouveaux documents en linaire A d'Akrotiri (Thra): remarques prliminaires, pp. 407-411; Olivier Jean-Pierre, Rougemont Franoise, Recherches rcentes en pigraphie crto-mycnienne, Bulletin de correspondance hellnique, volume 122, livraison 2, 1998, pp. 403-443. Additional sign A801 is here read and commented on. Item Akrotiri D18 is displayed on Museum of Prehistoric Thera with number 8366.

Tsipopoulou, Metaxia, and Erik Hallager, Inscriptions with Hieroglyphs and Linear A from Petras, Siteia, Studi Micenea ed Anatolici 37, pp.7-46, 1996.

Frieda Vandenabeele et Jean-Pierre Olivier, Les Idogrammes Archologiques du Linaire B, cole Franaise dAthnes, tudes Crtoises XXIV, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1979, IdeoLB

Jean-Pierre Olivier et Luis Godard avec Jean-Claude Poursat, Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae, cole Franaise dAthnes, tudes Crtoises 31, De Boccard, dition-Diffusion, Paris, 1996, CHIC

Anna Margherita Jasink, Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals, A New Classification of Symbols And Ornamental / Filling Motifs, Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, 2009

Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals (CMS), 1958 2011, CMS

Luis Godart, The Phaistos Disc: the enigma of an Aegean script, photos by Judith Lange, translation by Alexandra Doumas, Editions Itanos, Athens, 1995 : , Judith Lange, , , , 1995

Masson Olivier, Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques, Requeil critique et comment, Rimpression augmente de ldition de 1961, tudes Chypriotes, I, cole Franaise dAthnes, De Boccard, dition-Diffusion, Paris, 1983

Masson Emilia, Etudes de vingt-six boules dargile inscrites trouves Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre), Studies In Mediterranean Archaeology, volume XXXI: Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts, part 1, Gteborg, strms Frlag, 1971.Cyprominoica. Rpertoires, Documents de Ras Shamra, Essais dinterprtation, Studies In Mediterranean Archaeology, volume XXXI: Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts, part 2, Gteborg, strms Frlag, 1974

Jean-Pierre Olivier avec Fr. Vandenabeele, dition holistique des textes chypro-minoens, Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, 2007.

Silvia Ferrara, CyproMinoan Inscriptions, volume 1: Analysis, volume 2: The Corpus, Oxford University Press, 2013

G. H. Hourmouziadis, ed., Dispilio, 7500 Years After, Thessaloniki, 2002

., , , , 2006.

Claude Brixhe, Corpus Des Inscriptions Palo-Phrygiennes, Kadmos 43, pp. 1-130, Walter De Gruyter, 2004

Claude Brixhe, Recai Tekolu, Guy Vottro, Corpus Des Inscriptions Dialectales De Pamphylie, Kadmos 46, pp. 39-52, Walter De Gruyter, 2007

Alexander Lubotsky, The Old Phrygian Areyastis-Inscription, originally in Kadmos 27-1, pp. 9-26, 1988

Alfredo Rizza, A New Epigraphic Document with Sidetic Signs, Kadmos 44, pp. 60-74, Walter De Gruyter, 2005

L. H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C., Revised Edition with Corrections and Supplement by A. W. Johnston, Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology, 1990, Jeffery

Margherita Guarducci, Lepigrafia greca dall origini al tardo impero, Libreria sello Stato, Roma, 1987, Guarducci , , , , 2008

Bonfante Larissa, The Scripts of Italy in The Worlds Writing Systems, eds. Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996

Conway R. S., The Italic Dialects, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1897, Conway

Faulmann Carl, Das Buch der Schrift, Kaiserlich-Kniglichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, 1880

UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative - Christopher C. Little, Survey of Old Italic script use across Italy, in Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Old Italic Characters, http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4395.pdf, Little

UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative - Michael Everson and John Younger, Revised proposal for encoding the Linear A script in the SMP of the UCS, http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n3973.pdf; now in Unicode 7.0, n3973

Michel Suignard, project director:n4569: Draft additional repertoire Amendment 2 to ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th edition)

The books by Evans, CHIC and GORILA are available online:Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/details/textsBiblioteken der Universitt Heidelberg, http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.deLEcole Franaise dAthnes, http://cefael.efa.gr

Internet resources:POINIKASTAS: Epigraphic Sources For Early Greek Writing, http://poinikastas.csad.ox.ac.uk/introduction.shtmlMNAMON, Antiche Scritture del Mediterraneo, http://lila.sns.it/mnamon, LILADiccionario Micnico, Francisco Aura Jorro, http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/diccionariomicenico DataBases about Aegean Subjects, http://dbas.sciant.unifi.it/index.php?c=homeArachne images, CMS browser: http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal

Documentation of the Aegean font:Alphabets.docx, tables of local variants of Ancient Greek and Old Italic alphabets.AegeanText.docx, character repertoire of Aegean in a single paragraph.AegeanList.xlsx, character repertoire of Aegean in a spreadsheet.CyproMinoan.docx, Cypro-Minoan inscriptions with images and text in Aegean.LinearAB.docx, a complete table of Linear A and B glyphs with variants.CretanHiero.docx, sign indices, palaiographic charts and standardized tables of Cretan Hieroglyphs.Phaistos.pdf, a vector image of the Phaistos Disc.

Lycian

Lydian

Carian

A

10280

F0270

F0271

A

10920

102A0

F02A0

F02A1

F02A2

F02A3

102B9

F02BE

F02BF

F02C0

F02C1

E

10281

F0273

F0272

F0274

B

10921

102A1

F02A4

F02A5

102BA

B

10282

F0275

G

10922

F0921

F0920

102A2

F02A6

102BB

BH

10283

F0276

D

10923

102A3

102BC

F02C2

G

10284

F0278

F0277

VV

YY

E

10924

F0922

F0923

102A4

F02A7

EE

102BD

D

10285

F0279

V

10925

102A5

F02A9

F02AA

F02A8

FF

102BE

I

10286

F027A

I

10926

102A6

F02AB

HH

102BF

F02C3

F02C4

F02C5

W

10287

Y

10927

102A7

102C0

Z

10288

K

10928

102A8

F02AC

102C1

TH

10289

F027B

L

10929

102A9

F02AD

F02AE

F02AF

102C2

J

1028A

M

1092A

102AA

F02B0

F02B1

102C3

K

1028B

F027C

F027D

N

1092B

F0924

102AB

102C4

Q

1028C

F027E

O

1092C

102AC

F02B2

102C5

F02C6

L

1028D

F027F

R

1092D

102AD

102C6

F02C7

M

1028E

F0280

SS

1092E

F0925

F0926

F0927

F0928

SS

102AE

F02B3

F02B4

F02B5

102C7

F02C8

N

1028F

F0283

F0281

F0282

F0284

F0285

T

1092F

102AF

F02B6

102C8

MM

10290

U

10930

102B0

MM

102C9

NN

10291

F

10931

F0929

102B1

102CA

U

10292

OO

Q

10932

102B2

VV

102CB

P

10293

F0286

F0287

F0288

F0289

F028A

S

10933

102B3

102CC

KK

10294

TT

10934

F092B

F092A

102B4

F02B7

102CD

R

10295

F028B

AN

10935

102B5

F02B8

102CE

S

10296

F028D

F028C

EN

10936

102B6

102CF

T

10297

LY

10937

102B7

F02BA

F02B9

102D0

TT

10298

NN

10938

F092C

102B8

F02BB

F02BC

F02BD

AN

10299

F0292

F028E

F028F

F0290

F0291

F0293

C

10939

EN

1029A

F0294

F0295

F0296

F0297

H

1029B

1093F

F092D

F092E

F092F

X

1029C

F0298

F0299

F0299

F029B

Phrygian

Sidetic

Phoenician

Ugaritic

Old Persian

A

10900

F0900

10380

10390

103A0

103B9

B

10901

F0901

10381

10391

103A1

103BA

10902

F0902

10382

10392

103A2

103BB

O

10903

F0903

10383

10393

103A3

103BC

Y V

10904

F0904

10384

10394

103A4

103BD

F

10905

F0905

10385

10395

103A5

103BE

I

10906

F0906

10386

10396

103A6

103BF

K

10907

F0907

10387

10397

103A7

103C0

10908

F0908

10388

10398

103A8

103C1

M

10909

F0909

10389

10399

103A9

103C2

N

T

1090A

F090A

1038A

1039A

103AA

103C3

O

1090B

F090B

1038B

1039B

103AB

103C8

O

1090C

F090C

1038C

1039C

103AC

103C9

P

I

1090D

F090D

1038D

1039D

103AD

103CA

1090E

F090E

1038E

103AE

103CB

T

1090F

F090F

1038F

1039F

103AF

103CC

K

10910

F0910

103B0

103CD

10911

F0911

103B1

103CE

10912

F0912

103B2

103CF

10913

F0913

103B3

103D0

10914

F0914

103B4

103D1

10915

F0915

103B5

103D2

P

10916

F0916

103B6

103D3

10917

F0917

103B7

103D4

10918

F0918

103B8

103D5

10919

F0919

1091A

F091A

1091B

F091B

1091F

F091F

Numbers

0

1018A

70

10116

10140

FFB49

80

10117

10141

10175

10176

90

10118

10177

100

10119

1016A

10178

200

1011A

1

10107

10159

1015A

300

1011B

1016B

2

10108

1015B

1015C

400

1011C

3

10109

FFB4A

500

1011D

10145

F0140

F0141

1016C

1016D

1016E

F014B

1016F

10170

4

1010A

600

1011E

5

1010B

10143

1015F

700

1011F

6

1010C

800

10120

7

1010D

900

10121

8

1010E

1000

10122

10171

9

1010F

2000

10123

10

10110

10160

10161

10162

10163

10164

3000

10124

11

10107

4000

10125

12

10108

5000

10126

10146

10172

13

10109

6000

10127

14

1010A

7000

10128

15

1010B

8000

10129

16

1010C

9000

1012A

17

1010D

10000

1012B

18

1010E

20000

1012C

19

1010F

30000

1012D

20

10111

40000

1012E

21

=10107

50000

1012F

10147

30

10112

10165

F0147

F0148

F0149

F014A

FFB4A

60000

10130

40

10113

70000

10131

50

10114

10144

10166

10144

10166

10167

10168

10169

80000

10132

60

10115

90000

10133

70

10116

100000

Measures

10140

03A4

1 :

F0152

F0153

1

10137

10141

1 :

1014F

5

10138

1

03A7

1 :

10150

10

10139

2

1017C

0399

1 :

10151

50

1013A

F012D

3

1017D

:2

10152

100

1013B

F012E

4

1017E

:3

10153

F0143

500

1013C

1

1017F

:4

10154

1000

1013D

F012F

F0130

1

10180

:5

10155

10000

1013E

2

0370

1

10156

50000

1013F

F0131

3

10173

5

10158

: 1016, 100 , 10

FFBFE

FFBFF

2 :2

10157

F0144

F0145

F0146

:10

10179

FFABE

10190

sextans: as

10174

50

10181

():12 , 144192

10191

uncia: as

10142

1017B

F014D

F0151

1 :100

10182

:

10192

semuncia: uncia

1015D

1015E

2

10183

: 1 ,12 ,

10193

sextula: uncia

1017A

F014C

1 :60

10184

10194

dimidia sextula: sextula

10148

5

10185

F014E

:12 , 2

10195

siliqua: solidus

10149

10

10186

F014F

:1 3

10196

denarius:5 asses

1014A

50

10187

:

10197

quinarius: denarius

1014B

100

10188

: , 20

10198

sestertius: 2 asses, denarius

1014C

F0142

500

10189

:

10199

dupondius:2 asses

1014D

1000

F0150

: 6 , () 1 ()

1019A

as: 1 pound,12 ounces

1014E

5000

F0154

: ,1216 ()

1019B

centurial

Metrical symbols

23D1

breve

FFD10

anceps

FFD19

poem end

23D2

long over short

FFD11

longum

FFD1A

hiatus

23D3

short over long

FFD12

aeolian basis

FFD1B

dovetail

23D4

long over shorts

FFD13

breve - longum

FFD1C

responsion

23D5

shorts over long

FFD14

catalexis

23D6

joined shorts

FFD15

tricolon

23D7

triseme

FFD16

word end

FFD1D

anaclasis

23D8

tetraseme

FFD17

period end

FFD1E

ictus

23D9

pentaseme

FFD18

stanza end

FFD1F

bridge

Textual symbols

editorial koronis

2E0E

FFD03

FFD04

paragraphos

2E0F

forked paragraphos

2E10

FFD05

reverse forked paragraphos

2E11

FFD06

papyrological hypodiastole

2E12

keravnion

FFD00

obelos

FFD01

dotted obelos

2E13

FFD07

FFD08

downward ancora

2E14

upward ancora

2E15

diple aperistiktos

FFD02

diple periestigmene

2E16

FFD09

FFD0A

diple periestigmene

2E16

FFD09

FFD0A

Gortyna marks

FFD20

FFD21

FFD22

FFD23

FFD24

FFD25

FFD26

FFD27

FFD28

Musical Notation

1D200

1D20E

1D21C

1D22A

1D238

1D201

1D20F

1D21D

1D22B

1D239

1D202

1D210

1D21E

1D22C

1D23A

1D203

1D211

1D21F

1D22D

1D23B

1D204

1D212

1D220

1D22E

1D23C

1D205

1D213

1D221

1D22F

1D23D

1D206

1D214

1D222

1D230

1D23E

1D207

1D215

1D223

1D231

1D23F

1D208

1D216

1D224

1D232

1D240

1D209

1D217

1D225

1D233

1D241

1D20A

1D218

1D226

1D234

1D242

1D20B

1D219

1D227

1D235

1D243

1D20C

1D21A

1D228

1D236

1D244

1D20D

1D21B

1D229

1D237

1D245

OpenType features

Lycian, Stylistic Alternates

Carian, Stylistic Alternates

Lydian, Stylistic Alternates

Phoenician, Stylistic Set 1

Linear B (for Aegean Numbers), Stylistic Set

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

70000

80000

90000

Greek, Case-Sensitive Forms

Greek, Stylistic Alternates , Historical Forms

Greek, Historical Ligatures , Contextual Ligatures

various scripts, Fractions

1/4

1/2

3/4

1/3

2/3

1/5

...

1/10

/

...

various scripts, Numerators Superscript , Oldstyle Figures , Denominators Subscript

012345678901234567890123456789

Cypriot Syllabary, Stylistic Sets 16 ; shown in the Cypriot Syllabaries chapter below.

Cypriot Syllabaries

Variants of the Cypriot Syllabary (0) are encoded in Plane 15, as follows:

1IdalionF1700...F1735:

2AkanthouF1736...F1760:

3EteocypriotF1761...F17A4:

4Ancient PaphianF17A5...F17DB:

5Recent PaphianF17DC...F1824:

6Tsepis steleF1825...F1853:

The first variant in columns 1...6 is available as an Open Type Stylistic Set ss01...ss06.

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

A

PA

E

PE

I

PI

O

PO

U

PU

JA

RA

JE

RE

JO

RI

KA

RO

KE

RU

KI

SA

KO

SE

KU

SI

LA

SO

LE

SU

LI

TA

LO

TE

LU

TI

MA

TO

ME

TU

MI

WA

MO

WE

MU

WI

NA

WO

NE

XA

NI

XE

NO

ZA

NU

ZO

Cypro-Minoan

Aegean no longer covers Cypro-Minoan scripts; see CyproMinoan.ttf and CyproMinoan.docx.

Cretan Hieroglyphs

Aegean no longer covers Cretan Hieroglyphs; see Cretan.ttf and Cretan.docx.

Linear A and B

Signs are arranged according to the following scheme (the Wingspread Convention up to A743):

AB001 191signs in both A and B, with some exceptions: A028b, A101, A120b, A131c and B012, B014, B015, B018, B019, B025, B032, B033, B036, B042, B043, B052, B062, B063, B064, B068, B071, B072, B075, B083, B089, B090, B091

B200 299signs only in B

A301 371signs only in A: 311, 313, 330, 337 341, 348 and 351 appear only with others; 340 371 appear only once

A400 418vases

A501 664complex signs (ligatures); in numeric order (1st, 2nd, etc)

A701 713simple fractions

A714 743complex fractions

A800 808additions to GORILA

A900 908punctuation, etc.

A complete table of Linear A and B can be found in AegeanLinear.docx; that table has the following structure:

Linear A namepartsmeaning

volume.page in GORILALinear A glyphscodepoint

Linear B namepartsB number

Linear B glyphscodepoint

AB001

10600

3.152F0501

DA

B001

10005

AB002

10601

3.184F0503

3.196F0504

RO

B002

1002B

F0000

AB003

10602

F0506

F0507

F0508

PA

B003

1001E

F0001

...........

...........

SO

B012

10030

F000C

F000D

...........

...........

A807

10767

2.7F0831

Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disk symbols are encoded with LTR directionality in Unicode (blue are extra alternates in F01D0 F01E7):

They are, thus, mirror images of the symbols on the disk itself (see Phaistos.pdf for a vector image of the disc). Aegean also encodes (in F0200 F0247) the above glyphs with RTL directionality. They are shown below, typed from right to left:

Side A presented with LTR directionality:

Side A presented with RTL directionality:

Side B presented with LTR directionality:

Side B presented with RTL directionality:

Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF20 FFF31 of Plane 15.

Signs found on vessels from Troy, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann. They appeared in the exhibition "Troy and Thrace", in the spring of 1983 at the State Museum of Fine Arts, in Moscow (http://kladina.narod.ru/kazanskiy/kazanskiy.htm).

2444

FFF20

FFF21

FFF22

FFF23

FFF24

FFF25

FFF26

FFF27

FFF28

FFF29

2445

FFF2A

FFF2B

FFF2C

FFF2D

FFF2E

FFF2F

FFF30

FFF31

Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF00 FFF0E of Plane 15.

FFF00FFF01FFF02FFF03FFF04FFF05FFF06FFF07FFF08FFF09FFF0AFFF0BFFF0CFFF0DFFF0E

Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF40 FFF69 of Plane 15.

The Dispilio Tablet (also known as the Dispilio Scripture or the Dispilio Disk) is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings (), unearthed during George Hourmouziadiss excavations of Dispilio in Greece; it is carbon 14-dated to about 7300 BP (5260 BC). It was discovered in 1993 in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Kastoria Prefecture, Greece. The tablets discovery was announced at a symposium in February 1994 at the University of Thessaloniki. The sites paleoenvironment, botany, fishing techniques, tools and ceramics were published informally in the June 2000 issue of , a Greek archaeology magazine and by Hourmouziadis in 2002. There is no academic publication of the tablet.

Character repertoire of Aegean

Basic Latin, Greek, Punctuation and other Symbols ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms Aegean Numbers Ancient Greek Numbers Ancient Symbols Phaistos Disc Lycian Carian Old Italic Ugaritic Old Persian Linear A Cypriot Syllabary Phoenician Lydian Ancient Greek Musical Notation Linear B variants, F0000 - F012C Aegean Numbers variants, F012D - F0131 Ancient Greek Numbers variants, F0140 - F0154 Phaistos Disc alternates, F01D0 - F0247 Lycian variants, F0270 - F029B Carian variants, F02A0 - F02C8 Linear A variants, F0501 - F0838 Phoenician alternates, F0900 - F091F Lydian variants, F0920 - F092F Cypriot Syllabary variants, F1700 - F1853 Local variants of Ancient Greek, Old Italic et al., FFA00 - FFBFF additional Textual Symbols, FFD00 - FFD0A additional Metrical Symbols, FFD10 - FFD1F decorative marks from Gortyna, FFD20 - FFD28 additions for Greek, FFD30 - FFD86 signs on the Arkalochori Axe, FFF00 - FFF0E signs on Troy vessels, FFF20 - FFF31 signs on the Dispilio tablet, FFF40 - FFF69 small cap numbers, FFFB0 - FFFB9

Aegean, version 7.42, July 2014, Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts, George Douros