On Decipherment of the Inscriptions of Linear A in the Common Kartvelian Language: qa-pa3 – a Vessel for Liquid

The object of this paper is deciphering of Cretan Linear A inscriptions spread mainly across the 

Aegean area. 

1. The paper presents a brief background of the ancient population of the Peloponnese, Asia 

Minor and the Aegean islands before the Indo-European migrations. 

It is supposed that the indigenous inhabitants of this area were of non-Indo-European and 

non-Semitic origin. 

2. The study of the linguistic material and graphical qualities of Linear A, and the phonetic 

reading of Linear B script by M. Ventris, granted the correctness of my decipherment of 

Linear A inscriptions in the Common Kartvelian. 

Some of the deciphered Linear A words are the following: 

a. Words for numeral operations: (addition) ku-ro – “to bind, gather, collect, add”, and 

(subtraction) ki-ro – “fault, defect; to subtract, lessen, diminish, cut off”; 

b. Names of vessels for liquid – qa-pa3, ka-ti, and ka-di; 

c. The toponyms and anthroponyms: pa-i-to – “Phaistos”; a-ja – “Aea”; ku-ta- – 

“Cyta[ea]”; ku-ku-da-ra – “a Colchian person”; ma-ka-ri-te – “the island of 

Macris/Euboea (Macrean or Macrones tribe)”.