The XXXVI International Scientific Symposium "Multidisciplinary Studies of the Turkish World"
The 25
th
of March 2023 ISBN: 978-605-72481-0-7 Eskishehir / Türkiye
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unknown meaning. Some researchers regarded them as ornaments and the others – as inscription. We are
among those, who regard that there is an inscription.
If we suppose that there is an archaic
inscription on the altar, primarily, we should take into
consideration the fact that Phoenician, other semitic, archaic Greek and, frequently, archaic Latin alphabets
are written from right to left, that in some archaic texts there are no vowels while in some of them they are
rarely used, that in different periods of development, the shapes of graphemes, regarding the orientation of the
words (from left to right or vice versa), they are horizontally turned to one of the sides, it should be taken into
consideration that several graphemes can be expressed by the monogram...
Regarding the above, we attempted to read the words from right to the left and assume presence of
monograms in certain signs (famous researcher
Pavle Ingorokva
regarded that in ancient Georgian alphabet,
the
oldest type of which is
Asomtabvruli,
there was used ligature; Ingorokva, 250).
Among the images on this altar discovered at Grakliani Hill, the third and fourth characters from the
right are most close to the classical graphemes and we shall focus on these graphemes first of all (Tab. 2).
The third character from the right looks
almost like
Greek
delta
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