Matrix of semiotic markers and rules.._06
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VI. Ligatures occur within the Danube script, but are absent in the field of
ornamentation.
Signs of writing can be combined by ligatures which occur when two or more
signs are written or printed as a unit. The technique to create a compound mark
consisting of two or more joined elementary marks is absent in the sphere of the
decoration.
I am going to illustrate briefly the technique of the ligature in the Danube script
with two examples at the opposite geographical poles: a Neolithic spherical stone
found at the village or, perhaps, the necropolis-sanctuary of Lepenski Vir (Iron
Gates region, Republic of Serbia) and a fragment of an early Copper age spoon
unearthed at Kisunyom-Nàdasi (County Vas, Hungary).
Fig. 51. The Neolithic
spherical stone from
Lepenski Vir (Republic of
Serbia) is incised with a
number of signs among
which some compound
signs derived from
ligatures (photo Merlini M.
2003).
Fig. 52. The compound signs derived from ligatures on the
stone from Lepenski Vir (Republic of Serbia).
The spherical stone from Lepenski Vir is incised with a number of signs some
of whose are compound signs derived from ligatures. All the simple linked signs are
inscribable inside my inventory of the Danube script (i.e. they occur within a script
framework also in other periods and regions) as displayed below. The sign is
possibly an anthropomorphic figure made of three linked elementary signs. Winn
noted that the sign is greatly elongate and may consist of an overlapping “X”
added in the lowest possible space of the object (Winn 1981: 262).
Fig. 53. The inscribed Lengyel III spoon
from Kisunyom-Nàdasi (County Vas,
Hungary) (graphic elaboration Merlini M.
after Kàrolyi 1994: 107, Taf.1.14)
Fig. 54. All the five compound signs are
composed by juxtaposing, interweaving, or
merging signs that all I accounted in my
inventory of the Danube script.
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