Author: Sir Arthur EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script
Author: Sir Arthur EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Aegean Linear Script(s)
Author: Ester SalgarellaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479383
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Script and Society
Author: Philip J. BoyesPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789255848
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Author: 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.
The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Volume 2, Selected Tablets and Endmatter
Author: John KillenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009546554
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
In 1952 Michael Ventris deciphered the script found on the Linear B tablets from Crete and the Greek mainland, therefore revealing the earliest known form of Greek. In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an account of the decipherment, of the language of the tablets, of the society and economy revealed by the documents and a series of chapters giving texts, translations and commentary of the most important tablets. Though partially updated in 1973, Documents is now very much outdated: there has been a vast accrual of bibliography on the subject since 1973, and discoveries of tablets at new sites. This new survey, written by fourteen of the world's leading experts, will bring the reader fully up-to-date with developments in all aspects of Mycenaean studies, concluding with a new, full glossary of all the most recently discovered words.
The New Volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Scripta Minoa
Author: Arthur John EvansThe Palace of Minos
Author: Sir Arthur EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation
Author: Angelo MossoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description