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MARGALIT FINKELBERG, «The Eteocretan Inscription from Psychro and the Goddess of Thalamai» (pp. 95-100): The so-called Eteocretan inscription from Psychro consists of five words, of which four are written in Greek characters and one in Linear A signs. One of the possible ways in which the Linear A word can be read is i-ne-ti, which makes it actually identical to the first word of the sequence ENETH ... written in Greek characters. It is likely that the latter stands for the dative case of the name of the goddess Ino Pasipha, worshipped at Thalamai on the nearby coast of Laconia. Considering that the words i-ne-ti, ENETH and Ino' are strongly reminiscent of the Anatolian stem for 'mother' (see especially Lycian êni-, Lydian êna-), we may conclude that the goddess worshipped at both Psychro and Thalamai must have originally been a Minoan mother-goddess.
La pretendida inscripción eteocretense de Psicro consta de cinco palabras, de las que cuatro están escritas en albafeto griego y la quinta con signos de la Lineal A. Una de las lecturas posibles de esta última es i-ne-ti, que es equiparable a la primera palabra de la secuencia ENETH ΠΑΡΣΙΦΑΙ escrita en letras griegas, en la que la segunda es probablemente el nombre en dativo de la diosa Ino Pasipha, venerada en Talamas, en la cercana costa de Laconia. Dado que i-ne-ti, ENETH e 'Ino' recuerdan de cerca el tema anatólico para la 'madre' (véanse en especial licio êni- y lidio êna-), podemos concluir que la diosa que recibe culto en Psicro y Talamas debe haber sido en origen una diosamadre minoica.
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The so-called Eteocretan inscription from Psychro, dating to the Hellenistic period, is written on the triangular upper part of a broken stone plate and consists of five words, of which four are written in Greek characters and one in Linear A signs (FIG. I).1 The alphabetic part of the inscription reads ... (or: ... 01) | ... | ENETH ....
The Linear A part consists of three signs, the execution of which indicates that the engraver was only remotely acquainted with the Bronze Age script he was using. As has already been pointed out, one of the possible Linear A equivalents of the...