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Author:   Cassandra M. Donnelly (Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cyprus)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Weight:   1.028kg
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9781803279954

ISBN 10:   1803279958
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   29 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Too much writing, too few scribes: Extra-scribal writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE) – Cassandra M. Donnelly   Section I: Craft Literacy and Non-Scribal Writing Potmarks in Context: Some Preliminary Observations on Marked Vessels from Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus – Teresa Bürge A Desert Writing Idiom: North Kharga’s Ancient Carvers Modify and Appropriate Standard Egyptian Scribal Practices – Nikolaos Lazaridis Non-Administrative Linear A Writing Practices: The Case of Stone Vessels (c.1800-1450 BC) – Mnemosyne Rice Material Matters: The Influence of Materiality on the Structure and Palaeography of the Linear A script of Bronze Age Crete – Ester Salgarella   Section II: Meaning Making Unique and Universal: The Workmen’s Identity Marks from Deir el-Medina in Comparative Perspective – K. V. J. van der Moezel This Means That: Processes of Fixing and Conveying Meaning with Seals – Sarah Finlayson Tracing Graphic Signs of the Byblos Script in the Bronze Age Potmarking Systems in Lebanon – Metoda Peršin   Section III: Materiality Eternal Works: Stone as a Book Medium in Pharaonic Egypt – Chana Algarvio Materials of Writing: Ostraca Use at Tell Edfu – Kathryn Bandy Un-Writing Text: Intentional Erasing and Damaging of Script in Ancient Egypt – Elena L. Hertel Hittite and Neo-Hittite Writing Styli with Pointed Tips: Catalog, Technology, Significance – Michele Cammarosano

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Cassandra Donnelly is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus with the ERC Starting Grant (947749) ComPAS project (“Commercial Patterns Across the Sea”) where she studies Cypro-Minoan script and marks incised on Canaanite Jars. Her training is in Aegean scripts and languages, with a specialization in the Cypro-Minoan script.

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