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Author : Brent Eric Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions written by Brent Eric Davis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brent Eric Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042930971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions written by Brent Eric Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscribed 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
ISBN 13 : 9781530015863
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Linear a Decipherment written by Stuart L. Harris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linear 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
ISBN 13 : 0521073715
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Minoan Stone Vases written by Peter Warren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a descriptive inventory of more than 3,500 stone vases from the Minoan civilisation.
Author : Ester Salgarella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108806163
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Aegean Linear Script(s) written by Ester Salgarella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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 : Ellen Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110719752X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete written by Ellen Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.
Author : David W. Packard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520332075
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Minoan Linear A written by David W. Packard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009452061
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Minoan Zoomorphic Culture written by Emily S. K. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals-engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls-contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities.
Author : John Marangozis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783895863868
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (638 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Minoan Linear A written by John Marangozis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippa Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785706454
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Understanding Relations Between Scripts written by Philippa Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Silvia Ferrara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199607575
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions written by Silvia Ferrara and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferrara offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan, and presents an analysis of all the inscriptions through a multidisciplinary perspective that embraces aspects of archaeology, epigraphy, and palaeography.
Author : Marilina Betrò
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111360806
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts written by Marilina Betrò and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in many ways. Eleven case studies in five sections on the ancient world, including the Near East, Egypt, the Mediterranean, China and India, demonstrate the impact of a holistic approach that considers materiality and content alike. Following an introductory sketch of relevant research, the first section, 'Methodological Considerations', critically examines the limitations the evidence available imposes on our understanding. 'Early Uses of Writing' addresses material and spatial aspects of inscriptions, and their communicative functions over the textual ones. The third section, 'Material Features', deals with clay, wooden and papyrus manuscripts and demonstrates the importance of an integrated approach. The contributions to 'Co-presence of Written Artefacts' take into account that written artefacts come in clusters. The final section, 'Cultural Encounters', presents studies on the interactions between social strata and ethnic groups, challenging previous ideas. The volume contributes to the comparative study of written artefacts in ancient history, stimulating cross-disciplinary and -cultural research.
Author : Simon Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear A and Pictographic Scripts written by Simon Davis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259029
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean written by Philippa M. Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing 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.
Author : Silvia Ferrara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198908768
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Writing from Invention to Decipherment written by Silvia Ferrara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the potential decipherment of poorly understood scripts. The volume offers state-of-the-art research on undeciphered scripts from the Aegean (as for example, Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A) or not completely deciphered (as for example Maya) scripts. From a methodological perspective, these contributions lay out how and why writing was invented, who used it, and to what ends. Here writing is presented as a multi-modal cultural phenomenon, that intersects and transcends neat discipline boundaries, within an inclusive approach bridging archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and cognitive studies.
Author : Sir Arthur Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scripta Minoa written by Sir Arthur Evans and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge Cano Moreno
Publisher : CEHAO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Damqatum - Number 12 (2016) written by Jorge Cano Moreno and published by CEHAO. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damqatum is a journal dedicated to the history and archaeology of the Near East, oriented to the general public.
