Louvain-La-Neuve. Dudley (MA): Peeters, 2008 — X, 448 p. — (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique de Louvain 120). — ISBN: 978-90-429-1848-1; ISBN: 978-2-87723-955-4. Foreword. Editorial note. M. Pope , The Decipherment of Linear B.R. Palmer , How to Begin ? An introduction to Linear B conventions and resources. J. Driessen , Chronology of the Linear B texts....
London: Bristol Classical Press, 1980. — 159 p. This is a book which details and decyphers the dead language of Linear B. Linear B was one of the earliest written languages and was written by people who spoke "proto-Greek", i.e. the language which was later to become Classical Greek. The book lists the symbols, their pronunciation and the meanings. This introduction is suitable...
Louvain-La-Neuve, Walpole (MA): Peeters, 2011. — VIII, 343 p. — (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique de Louvain, 127). — ISBN: 978-90-429-2403-1; ISBN: 978-2-7584-0116-2. Foreword. Y. Duhoux , Interpreting the Linear B records: some guide-lines. T.G. Palaima , Scribes, scribal hands and palaeography. J. Bennet , The geography of the Myccnaean kingdoms. S....
Monograph. — Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988 [Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation, vol. 9.]. — viii + 131 p., l8 figures, 4 tables, 3 maps The central theme of Ancient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus is the derivation of all insular scripts from oriental ancestor scripts. The authors in this way show the close relationships between the Cretan Pictographic and Linear A scripts...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. — XIV, 326 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-960757-0. Contents: Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Abbreviations. Introduction : Part I: Function, Object, and Context : Literacy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus : Introducing Writing on Cyprus. The History of Scholarship. Broadening the Picture: a Comprehensive Analysis. Geographical Distribution. Political...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — XII, 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-969382-5. Contents: Abbreviations. Illustrations, Plates, and Tables. Introduction: An Archaeological Corpus : Historical Background. Dcfinition of the Corpus. Corpus Structure and Order of Entry. Additions. Appendices. The Inscriptions . Catalogue . Appendix 1: List of Cypro-Minoan Objects and their Possible...
A cura di Maurizio Del Freo e Massimo Perna. — Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2016. — XXX, 278 p. — ISBN: 978-88-6292-716-1. Sommario: Prefazione. Abbreviazioni bibliografiche. Elenco delle abbreviazioni. Autori. Introduzione : A. Franceschetti , Aspetti generali della civiltà minoica e micenea. M. Wiener , Il mondo miceneo e Omero. La scrittura, i documenti, la...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. — 382 p. The aim of the present publication is to give in the first place a Corpus as complete as possible of the existing records of the script of Minoan Crete by means of photographic facsimiles and copies of the documents. The First Part of the present volume has been devoted to a summary view of all the successive types of Minoan script,...
A cura di Maurizio Del Freo e Massimo Perna – Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2016. — XXX, 278 p. — ISBN: 978-88-6292-716-1. Sommario: Nota editoriale. I testi : H. Landenius Enegren , Registrazioni di personale. F. Rougemont , Animali e allevamento. J. Zurbach , Registrazioni di terreni e testi fondiari. S. Lupack , Spezie, oli profumati e offerte religiose. C....
Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Hedvig Landenius Enegren. — Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, 2017. — (Incunabula Graeca, 105). — ISBN: 978-88-8080-275-4. Abbreviations. Preface and acknowledgements. List of participants. Scripts, Palaeography and Research Tools : M. Del Freo , Rapport 2011-2015 sur les textes en écriture...
London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1987. — 64 p. — (Reading the past). — ISBN: 0-7141-8068-8. Long before Homer a script was in use in Greece which is quite unrelated to the alphabet. The kings of Mycenaean Greece kept their accounts on clay tablets written in a script now known as Minoan Linear B. In 1952 this was deciphered and shown to conceal an early form of the...
London: Bernard Quaritch; New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 1895. — 146 p. The first of these papers is reprinteJ, by permission, from the Hellenic Journal (Vol. xiv. Pt. 11. 1895) with some slight additions and corrections. The account of the Hagios Onuphrios deposit and its bearings on the prehistoric culture of the Aegean world is now issued for the first time. Already in 1893,...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. — 112 p.; plates. The first volume of Scripta Minoa was published in 1909. It contained, as Part I, an account of the Prae-Phoenician Scripts of Crete, their Mediterranean relations and place in Minoan story (pp. i-i 10). Part II described the Hieroglyphic or Conventionalized Pictographic Script, with its antecedents and affinities (pp. 111-293)....
Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Hedvig Landenius Enegren. — Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo antico, 2017. — (Incunabula Graeca, 105). — ISBN: 978-88-8080-275-4. Philology and Linguistics : O. Panagl , Einige Paradoxa und Paralipomena im Dialekt der Linear B-Tafeln. A. Bernabé . R. Pierini , What, When, Why: Tablet Functions and o-te...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 176 p. 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...
Profile Books Ltd., 2013. — 450 p. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 376 p. — (Cambridge Classical Studies). Nearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the first comprehensive account of this script, which is analyzed by the...
Ecco, 2013. — 384 p. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated...
Ecco, 2013. — 384 p. In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated...
Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1969. Pp. xxv + 606; numerous figs., map. ISBN: 978-3-946654-09-4. The first CMS volume about the Heraklion Archeological Museum’s collection presents seals of the Cretan Pre-Palace Period from reliable or unknown features. The volume comprises findings that had been uncovered until the 1960s. It also includes numerous seals of the Old Palace Period, which,...
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