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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