Ester Salgarella (Aarhus Univ Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies

Writing in Bronze Age Crete

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan, Cypro-Syllabic. This volume is dedicated to the conventionally called 'Minoan' Linear A script, used on Crete and the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1800-1450 BCE).

Produktdetails

• Elements in Writing in the Ancient World
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781009520065
• ISBN-10: 1009520067
• Artikelnr.: 74172843

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining the (un)definable: what is Linear A?
2. A tale of life and death: what is the life-span of Linear A?
3. The Linear A corpus: where is Linear A found?
4. Drawing lines: what does Linear A look like?
5. Of clay and stone (and else): where does Linear A appear?
6. (Beyond) accounting: what was Linear A used for?
7. 'Elementary, my dear Watson': what do we know from reading Linear A?
8. Speaking in riddles: which language does Linear A encode?
9. More unresolved mysteries: what do we not have in Linear A?
10. Current and future pathways of research: What's next?.