Endnote 2 – The Semites or the Greeks?

The Adapter might have gotten the number five from the Mediterranean tradition of purely phonetic writing (Linear B), which “recorded” Greek in the Bronze Age, or from the Cypro-Minoan script (derived from Linear B), which was used on Cyprus from about 1100 B.C. to 300 B.C. In each of these syllabic writing systems, five graphic signs were assigned as vowels.