Pylos Agronomy (D)
Ι am cleaning the virgin land. I am dissolving the cigar stones into pieces.
It was found in Pylos, Messinia, Greece and it dates back to 1400 B.C..
We have neither a depiction of the original, nor any elements about when and by whom it was found, until now.
In the text we can find clearing techniques of the virgin land, before cultivation.
The text is a document of specialized agricultural knowledge and action for the clearing of the land before cultivation .
The phonetic values, as they were identified and phonetically transcribed by Ventris and Chadwick, are the following:
PU RO RE WO TO RO KO WO
We studied the phonetic values in the actual text. We understood it, we read and rendered it into Modern Greek, but we also approached it philosophically.
Figuration of the phonetic values of the text.
In our own view, the phonetic values are formed as follows:
PURO-REWO-TORO-KOWO
The language of the text is Greek, Archaic, typical of any Minoan text. The grammatical structure of the text is mixed.
One can identify Pontic words, as well as Classical Greek Language.
The utterance of the words and of the verbal types, follows the grammatical rules of the Pontic Dialect, as well as those of the Classical Greek Language.
Rendition of the text:
Το πουρ ρέβω τορεύω κόβω (κόφτω).
The Τext in Modern Greek:
I am dispersing the stone (dissolving it into pieces) and I am carving it.
(Την πουρόπετρα σκορπίζω (διαλύοντάς την σε κομμάτια) σκαλίζω-τρυπώ
Κομματιάζω).
A Philosophical Approach:
The author of this inscription is a Pelasgian, and he knows very well how an infertile and rocky piece of land becomes fertile.
The cigar stone is a type of rock, which has the appearance of a thin geological layer. When this is dissolved, the conditions are perfect for viticulture. We always find it in semi-mountainous places, where there are vineyards.
This is the way my Pelasgian father used to clear land for viticulture, in the 1960s. At first he drilled the rock with a crowbar, after removing the plants from the surface of the rock. Then, he used a hammer to smash this stone into pieces. In this way, the mass went away from the field, and the crumbs were dispersed and mixed with the plants.
This text proves that the procedure of clearing the land is ancient, and it is also used nowadays, to set the conditions for viticulture.
People of that time often warmed the rocks before dissolving them.
While studying these texts, I understand and I feel all the procedures. I can approach them better, because I used to carry out some of them, with the aid of my father. I have also seen him clearing more fields, following the same ancient method.