ADDENDUM (4 February 1965)

The Northwest Semitic vocabulary of Minoan-Eteocretan now includes four words for various pots; “wine” and “wheat”; “people,” “man” and “other”; “town” and “city”; “to be,” to give” and “to set up as a votive offering”; “he,” “his,” “this,” and all”; “seven,” “nine” and “ten”; “to,” “for”; “and” and “or.”

Some of the HT tables are lists of offerings usually opening with the name of the god to whom the offerings are made. The pantheon is essentially Northwest Semitic embracing such deities as a-du HT 85:a:1; 86:a:4; 88:1; 92:1; 95:b:1; 99:a:1; 133:1) = Addu (an alternative name of Baal) and ti-ni-ta (HT 27:1) = the Phoenician-Punic goddess described as “Our Great Lady” (transliterated Thinith in Greek).

The Delta origin of the Minoans is borne out by a number of Egyptian “Re” names: e.g., ne-tu-ri-re (HT 3:5) = ntry-r’ “Re-is-divine,” ra-na-re HT 47:b:1; 94:b:4; 62:2?) = rn-r’ “Name-of-Re,” a-ra-na-re (HT 1:a:4) – c;-rn-r’ “Great-is-the-name-of-RE,” pa-ya-re (HT 8:b:4; 88:4; 117:a:5) – p;y-r’ “He-of-Re.”