The Pyrgos and Gournia Roundels Inscribed in Linear A: Suffixes, Prefixes, and a Journey to Syme

PYR Wc 4 (FIG. 001 top) a.1-2: TI-[•]-I-SI (possibly TI+DU-I-SI) b: logogram unknown, but perhaps the Linear A predecessor of Linear B *141 AURUM (Hallager 1996: 2-197). Around the rim of the Pyrgos roundel are five seal impressions from two seals, CMS II, 6 no. 234, a lentoid carrying two lions attacking a bull (two impressions), and no. 235, a cushion seal with a cult scene (three impressions). All five impressions are countermarked with the numeral 1. The best parallel to the pentagonal shape of the Pyrgos roundel is GO Wc 1, from Gournia House Cf, room 25 (H. 3.6, W. 3.3, Th. 1.4 cm; GORILA 2: 2); it was burnt dark grey to black, but not cracked, by a fire probably in LM IA (Hallager 1996, 2: 11; Weingarten 1990: 109–10, n. 30). GO Wc 1 is also inscribed on both sides: