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Understanding relations between scripts : the Aegean writing systems /
Examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegan and Cyprus in the second and first millennia B.C., principally Cretan hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B and Cypro-Minoan. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Havertown, PA :
Oxbow Books,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Aegean writing systems: Philippa M. Steele; 2. Another beginning's end: Secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean: Silvia Ferrara; 3. Cretan 'Hieroglyphic' and the nature of script: Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte; 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system
- different patterns in their development: Helena Tomas; 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the 'Mycenaean' literate administrations: Vassilis Petrakis.
- 6. From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values: Philippa M. Steele and Torsten Meißner7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: The evidence of the 'extra' signs: Anna P. Judson; 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan: Miguel Valério; 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script?: Yves Duhoux; 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: An overview on the occasion of two new inscriptions: Markus Egetmeyer; Bibliography.