Overview

In 1952 Michael Ventris deciphered the script found on the Linear B tablets from Crete and the Greek mainland, therefore revealing the earliest known form of Greek. In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an account of the decipherment, of the language of the tablets, of the society and economy revealed by the documents and a series of chapters giving texts, translations and commentary of the most important tablets. Though partially updated in 1973, Documents is now very much outdated: there has been a vast accrual of bibliography on the subject since 1973, and discoveries of tablets at new sites. This new survey, written by fourteen of the world's leading experts, will bring the reader fully up-to-date with developments in all aspects of Mycenaean studies, concluding with a new, full glossary of all the most recently discovered words.

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Author:   John Killen (University of Cambridge) ,  Anna Morpurgo Davies
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 25.90cm
Weight:   1.520kg
ISBN:  

9780521838139

ISBN 10:   0521838134
Pages:   762
Publication Date:   15 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Part III. Selected Tablets, Transcription, Translation, Commentary: Introduction: Interpreting Linear B John Killen; 11. Lists of Personnel John Killen; 12. Livestock John Killen; 13. Agricultural Produce John Killen; 14.1. Land Tenure Yves Duhoux; 14.2. The Pylos 'Dosmos' Tablets Pia De Fidio; 15. Taxation Cynthia Shelmerdine; 16. 'Industrial' Production Yves Duhoux; 17. Finished Products I: Vessels and Furniture John Killen and John Bennet; 18. Finished Products II: Military Equipment Joost Crouwel, Robert Plath and John Killen; 19. Religion, Cults and Ritual John Killen; 20. The Inscribed Stirrup Jars Peter Van Alfen; 21. Miscellaneous Texts John Killen; Part IV. Glossary, Bibliography, Indexes And Concordance: Glossary; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Modern Authors Cited; Index of Ancient Authors Cited; Homeric References; Concordance.

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JOHN T. KILLEN F.B.A., is Emeritus Professor of Mycenaean Greek, Cambridge University. He collaborated with John Chadwick, Jean-Pierre Olivier and others on the Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos (4 vols, 1986-98), and his collected papers on Linear B were edited by Maurizio Del Freo (3 vols., 2015).

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