Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions
Author: Brent Eric Davis
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 551
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Author: Brent Eric Davis
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 551
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789042930971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants' intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking. The seasonality of these rituals suggests that they were focused on the cycle of life: fertility, birth, death and renewal. Offerings left with the vessels suggest that these rituals also addressed other, more personal concerns. As for Linear A itself: the language behind the script appears to contain a fairly standard phonemic inventory, though there are hints of additional, more exotic phonemes. The morphology of the language appears to involve affixation, a typical mode of inflection in human languages. The presence of significant prefixing tends to rule out PIE as a parent language, while the word-internal vowel alternations typical of Afroasiatic verbal inflection are nowhere to be found in this script. In the end, Linear A appears most likely to represent a non-IE, non-Afroasiatic language, perhaps with agglutinative tendencies, and perhaps with VSO word order.
Author: Stuart L. Harris
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781530015863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinear A Decipherment cracks the code of the written language of Minoan Crete. The breakthrough came from recognizing a single word, tulos, meaning 'comes to' in Finnish at the end of a list of accounting figures. Because of all the work done in a similar script called Linear B, the complete decipherment of the basic syllabary was accomplished in one evening. The details, however, took three years because of having to learn how to read a syllabary and simultaneously constructing a matching dictionary with tens of thousands of words. As everyone hoped, the translations led to the identification of who founded Minoan Crete. The key was to recognize that Frisian history matched Greek history, only the names were different. Teunis became Tunisia, Phoenicia became Phoenix, Wodin became Cadmos. The great advantage of Frisian history is that it provides exact dates: Minoans colonized both Crete and Tyre in 2093 BC.
Author: Peter Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0521073715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a descriptive inventory of more than 3,500 stone vases from the Minoan civilisation.
Author: Ellen Adams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 110719752X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.
Author: Ester Salgarella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1108806163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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: David W. Packard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0520332075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Marangozis
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9783895863868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philippa Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1785706454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding 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: Philippa M. Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2023-11-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1789259029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those involved exploit opportunities to adapt old features and develop new ones. The act of writing then has tangible and visible consequences not only for the writers but also for those encountering what has been produced, whether they can read its content or not – with potential for a wider social visibility that can in turn affect the success and longevity of the writing system itself. With a focus on the syllabic systems of the Bronze Age Aegean, this book attempts to bring together different perspectives to create an innovative interdisciplinary outlook on what is involved in writing: from structuralist views of writing as systems of signs with their linguistic values, to archaeological and anthropological approaches to writing as a socially grounded practice. The main chapters focus on the concepts of script adoption and adaptation; different methods of logographic writing; and the vitality of writing traditions, with repercussions for the modern world. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.