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Author:   Philippa Steele
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
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9781785706448

ISBN 10:   1785706446
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   30 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of figures Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: the Aegean writing systems Philippa M. Steele Chapter 2. Another beginning's end: secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean Silvia Ferrara Chapter 3. Cretan `Hieroglyphic' and the nature of script Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte Chapter 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system - different patterns in their development Helena Tomas Chapter 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the `Mycenaean' literate administrations Vassilis Petrakis Chapter 6. From Linear B to Linear A: the problem of the backward projection of sound values Philippa M. Steele and Torsten Meissner Chapter 7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the `extra' signs Anna P. Judson Chapter 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan Miguel ValeÌ rio Chapter 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script? Yves Duhoux Chapter 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: an overview on the occasion of two new inscriptions Markus Egetmeyer Bibliography

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With its wide-ranging topics and methodologies, this volume makes an outstanding contribution to the current state of research. It is a pioneering undertaking encouraging further future collaborations. These studies have definitely paved the way for turning this 'no man's land' that is the study of writing systems into a promising autonomous discipline in its own right, while being connected to neighbouring fields of research through interdisciplinary bridges * Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie * All of the essays contain contributions of real interest and value [...] * Journal of Hellenic Studies *

With its wide-ranging topics and methodologies, this volume makes an outstanding contribution to the current state of research. It is a pioneering undertaking encouraging further future collaborations. These studies have definitely paved the way for turning this `no man's land' that is the study of writing systems into a promising autonomous discipline in its own right, while being connected to neighbouring fields of research through interdisciplinary bridges -- Reviews Editor * Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie *

With its wide-ranging topics and methodologies, this volume makes an outstanding contribution to the current state of research. It is a pioneering undertaking encouraging further future collaborations. These studies have definitely paved the way for turning this 'no man's land' that is the study of writing systems into a promising autonomous discipline in its own right, while being connected to neighbouring fields of research through interdisciplinary bridges * Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie * ...all [chapters] lead to conclusions that are important for our understanding of the development of writing in the Aegean [...] a collection that provides much food for thought. * Journal of Greek Archaeology * All of the essays contain contributions of real interest and value [...] * Journal of Hellenic Studies *

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Philippa Steele is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. Her research has concentrated on the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus and linguistic interrelations and writing systems in the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean. She is the author of A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus and editor of Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context (both 2013).

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