Author: Anna P. Judson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494722
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.
The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
Author: Anna P. Judson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494722
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494722
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.
Aegean Linear Script(s)
Author: Ester Salgarella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479383
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479383
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
The Decipherment of Linear B
Author: John Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110771723X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110771723X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
Author: Philippa Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Linear B
Author: J.T. Hooker
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780906515624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing are discusses, and Ventris' decipherment of Linear B is described and the Mycenaean dialect of Greek is examined. In Part two, the reader is taken through a number of important Linear B texts. These are presented first in a 'normalised' transcription of the Linear B characters, so as to induce familiarity with the lay-out of the original texts, secondly in transliteration, and thirdly in translation where this is possible.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780906515624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing are discusses, and Ventris' decipherment of Linear B is described and the Mycenaean dialect of Greek is examined. In Part two, the reader is taken through a number of important Linear B texts. These are presented first in a 'normalised' transcription of the Linear B characters, so as to induce familiarity with the lay-out of the original texts, secondly in transliteration, and thirdly in translation where this is possible.
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Author: Philippa M. Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.
Minoan Linear A
Author: David W. Packard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520332075
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520332075
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195105206
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post-Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age. Woodard's study, a combination of philological and epigraphical investigation with linguistic theory, should be of interest to both scholars and students of classics, linguistics, and Near Eastern studies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195105206
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post-Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age. Woodard's study, a combination of philological and epigraphical investigation with linguistic theory, should be of interest to both scholars and students of classics, linguistics, and Near Eastern studies.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
Author: Philippa Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
A Companion to Linear B
Author: Anna Morpurgo Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789042924031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789042924031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description