【History】 Historian of Mycenae John Chadwick believes that the terebinth is the plant
called ki-ta-no in some of the Linear B tablets. He cites the work of a Spanish scholar, J.L. Melena,
who had found "an ancient lexicon which showed that kritanos was another name for the turpentine tree, and that the Mycenaean spelling could represent a variant form of this word."[2]
The Latin name is underlain by the Ancient Greek name τερέβινθος, which, in turn, is
underlain by a pre-Greek Pelasgian word, marked by the characteristic consonant complex νθ.
Terebinth from Oricum is referred to in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 10, line 136, where Ascanius in battle is
compared to "ivory skilfully inlaid in [...] Orician terebinth" ("inclusum[...] Oricia terebintho [...] ebur").
Terebinth is referred to by Robin Lane Fox in Alexander the Great:
"When a Persian king took the throne, he attended Pasargadae, site of King Cyrus's tomb, and
dressed in a rough leather uniform to eat a ritual meal of figs, sour milk and leaves of terebinth."[3]
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とりあえず、引用だけしておく。古代ギリシャ語で「τερέβινθος」と呼ぶ植物は、
いわゆる線文字Bの碑文において、「ki-ta-no」と出てくると言う…それだけ記しておこう。