Author: Nicolle HirschfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyprus
Languages : es
Pages : 367
Book Description
The PASP Data Base for the use of scripts on Cyprus
Author: Nicolle HirschfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyprus
Languages : es
Pages : 367
Book Description
The PASP Data Base for the Use of Scripts on Cyprus
Author: Nicolle HirschfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyprus
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
Author: Philippa SteelePublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.
Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions
Author: Silvia FerraraPublisher:
ISBN: 0199607575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Ferrara offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan, and presents an analysis of all the inscriptions through a multidisciplinary perspective that embraces aspects of archaeology, epigraphy, and palaeography.
Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Author: Joanna S. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This is an exploration of the different approaches to the contextual study of ancient Cypriot methods of writing and recording, including the use of seal stones.
A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus
Author: Philippa M. SteelePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042860
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period.
Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus
Author: Giorgos PapantoniouPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004233806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
By focusing on religion, this monograph represents the first extended attempt to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent.
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Author: Lisa NevettPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.
The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age
Author: Assaf Yasur-LandauPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139485873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this study, Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and thereby reconstructs the social history of the Aegean migration to the southern Levant. The author follows the story of the migrants from the conditions that caused the Philistines to leave their Aegean homes, to their movement eastward along the sea and land routes, to their formation of a migrant society in Philistia and their interaction with local populations in the Levant. Based on the most up-to-date evidence, this book offers a new and fresh understanding of the arrival of the Philistines in the Levant.
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