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1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) |
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Cover; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Aegean writing systems: Philippa M. Steele; 2. Another beginning's end: Secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean: Silvia Ferrara; 3. Cretan 'Hieroglyphic' and the nature of script: Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte; 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system -- different patterns in their development: Helena Tomas; 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the 'Mycenaean' literate administrations: Vassilis Petrakis |
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6. From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values: Philippa M. Steele and Torsten Meißner7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: The evidence of the 'extra' signs: Anna P. Judson; 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan: Miguel Valério; 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script?: Yves Duhoux; 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: An overview on the occasion of two new inscriptions: Markus Egetmeyer; Bibliography |
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Examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegan and Cyprus in the second and first millennia B.C., principally Cretan hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B and Cypro-Minoan. 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 is the first volume dedicated solely to exploring this issue. Nine expert contributors aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between the writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account both of features of the writing systems and of the contextaul factors affecting the ways in whcih writing systems and of the contectual factors affecting the ways in which writing was used and 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 sscript relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies - cover |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Inscriptions, Linear B.
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Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan.
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Inscriptions, Linear A.
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Writing -- Aegean Sea Region
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Greek (Modern)
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HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
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Inscripciones.
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Excavaciones (Arqueología) - -- Egeo,Mar.
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Inscripciones lineales B.
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Inscripciones lineales A.
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Civilización egea -- Egeo, Mar.
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Inscripciones cretenses.
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Escritura -- Historia.
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Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan
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Inscriptions, Linear A
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Inscriptions, Linear B
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Writing
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Inscriptions, Linear B
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Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan
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Inscriptions, Linear A
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Writing -- Aegean Sea Region
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Europe -- Aegean Sea Region
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Aegaeum Mare.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Steele, Philippa M., 1983- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017019903 |
| ISBN |
9781785706455 |
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1785706454 |
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9781785706479 |
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1785706470 |
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1785706446 |
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9781785706448 |
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