ku-wa-no

Definitions

Bernabé & Luján 2008: "(cf. κύανος) must be lapis lazuli or else its cheaper Phoenician substitute, a kind of blue vitreous paste"

Chadwick & Ventris 1973: (inlaid) with lapis-coloured glass, cf. κύανος (Iliad XI, 24)

Variants

ku-wa-no-qe

ku-wa-no + connective enclitic qe

ku-wa-no-wo-ko-i

cf. e-to-wo-ko-i

Shelmerdine 2008: blue glass worker
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: dative plural, for the ku-wa-no workers

ku-wa-ni-jo-qe

cf. i-jo-qe, do-si-mi-jo-qe

Chadwick & Ventris 1973: instrumental plural, 'with (palm-trees?) of lapis-coloured glass', cf. κυάνεος (Iliad XI, 26+) + connective enclitic qe

References

Bernabé, Alberto and Eugenio Luján, 2008 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World (ed. Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies) “Mycenaean Technology”

Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek

Shelmerdine, Cynthia, 2008 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World vol. I (ed. Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies) "Mycenaean Society"

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