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...
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,...
In: S. Enderwitz & R. Sauer (eds.), Communication and Materiality: Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies. Berlin: DeGruyter. - 2015 - pp. 25-60. The present paper is part of the author’s ongoing research project on the materiality of the Linear B inscribed documents and on how the material properties and the very physicality of the text-bearing artifacts...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Antiquity. — 1953. — Vol. 27, Issue 108. — p. 196–206. It was in July 1952 that Mr Michael Ventris announced his solution of the fifty-year-old puzzle of the Minoan Linear B script. The announcement was at first received with proper scepticism, for many ‘solutions’ had already been published, none of which had proved convincing upon closer inspection. Most of them had been...
The Journal of Hellenic Studies. — 1897. — Vol. 17. — p. 327–393. In a former communication attention was called to an indigenous system of writing in Crete, the earlier stages of which go back, not only far beyond the date of the first introduction of the Phoenician alphabet among the Greeks, but to a period considerably anterior to the most ancient monumental record of the...
The Journal of Hellenic Studies. — 1894. — Vol. 14. — p. 270–372. In the absence of abiding monuments the fact has too generally been lost sight of, that throughout what is now the civilized European area there must once have existed systems of picture-writing such as still survive among the more primitive races of mankind. To find such ‘pictographs’ in actual use — the term is...
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...
American Journal of Archaeology. — 1954. — Vol. 58, No. 2. — p. 77-129. Until lately no great amount of Minoan writing was available. Only about 200 inscriptions in the most developed script, which is "Linear Script B," had been published. "Linear Script A" was even less known. In 1945 all of Linear A was published, and in 1951-53 the texts have been printed of about 3400...
The Annual of the British School at Athens. — 2015. — Vol. 110 (1). — p. 27–49. This article examines the inception of writing on Crete in the second millennium BC from a fresh methodological perspective. It aims to develop a synoptic understanding of the origin, purpose, experience, and significance of the earliest attestations of writing on the island, to investigate the...
American Journal of Archaeology. — 1948. — Vol. 52, No. 1. — p. 82-103. Our knowledge of a Minoan inscription may be based on any of the following kinds of reproduction, singly or in combination: a cast; a photograph of the original, of a cast, or of another photograph; a "faithful" transcription, made from the original, a cast, or some kind of a photograph; a "normalized"...
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...