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, a
Understanding relations between scripts: the Aegean writing systems
β Scribed by Steele, Philippa M
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 239
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
List of figures Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: the Aegean writing systemsPhilippa M. Steele Chapter 2. Another beginning's end: secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern MediterraneanSilvia Ferrara Chapter 3. Cretan 'Hieroglyphic' and the nature of scriptRoeland P.-J.E. Decorte Chapter 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system - different patterns in their developmentHelena Tomas Chapter 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the 'Mycenaean' literate administrationsVassilis Petrakis Chapter 6. From Linear B to Linear A: the problem of the backward projection of sound valuesPhilippa M. Steele and Torsten Meissner Chapter 7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the 'extra' signsAnna P. Judson Chapter 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-MinoanMiguel Vale rio Chapter 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script?Yves Duhoux Chapter 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: an overview on the occasion of two new inscriptionsMarkus Egetmeyer Bibliography
β¦ Subjects
Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan;Inscriptions, Linear A;Inscriptions, Linear B;Writing--Europe--Aegean Sea Region;Writing -- Europe -- Aegean Sea Region;Europe
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