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Author: Ester Salgarella Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108806163 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages :
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When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Linear A and B.
Author: Ester Salgarella Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108806163 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Linear A and B.
Author: Anna P. Judson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108849350 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages :
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Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values. Analysis of Linear B's structure and usage not only establishes these signs' most likely sound-values – providing the best possible basis for future decipherments – but also sheds light on the writing system as a whole. The undeciphered signs are also used to explore the evidence provided by palaeography for the chronology of the Linear B documents and the activities of the Mycenaean scribes. The conclusions presented in this book therefore deepen our understanding not only of the undeciphered signs but also of the Linear B writing system as a whole, the texts it was used to write, and the insight these documents bring us into the world of the Mycenaean palaces.
Author: Eric H. Cline Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199873607 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 968
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This Oxford handbook provides a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC) and describes the most important debates and discussions within the discipline. 66 articles in 4 sections cover topics ranging from chronological and geographical to thematic to site-specific.
Author: Philippa Steele Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1785706470 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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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.
Author: Peter T. Daniels Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0195079930 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 970
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Documents the history of writing to the present day. Covers every script officially used throughout the world.
Author: Silvia Ferrara Publisher: ISBN: 0199607575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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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.
Author: Fritz Blakolmer Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain ISBN: 2875589687 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 411
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The aim of this volume is to present an overview of current trends and individual methodological attempts towards arriving at an adequate understanding of Minoan, Cycladic, and Mycenaean iconography.
Author: Ester Salgarella
Author: Ester Salgarella
Author: Ester Salgarella
Author: Anna P. Judson
Author: Eric H. Cline
Author: Philippa Steele
Author: Harald Haarmann
Author: Peter T. Daniels
Author: Silvia Ferrara
Author: Philippa M. Steele
Author: Fritz Blakolmer