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Subject(s)

• Inscriptions, Linear A—Greece—Crete [Browse]
• Writing—Greece—Crete—To 1500 [Browse]
• Bronze age—Greece—Crete [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge elements. Elements of writing in the ancient world [More in this series]
• Cambridge Elements. Elements in writing in the ancient world

Summary note

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally named 'Minoan' Linear A script, used on Crete and the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1800-1450 BCE). Linear A is still undeciphered, and the language it encodes ('Minoan') thus remains elusive. Notwithstanding, scholars have been able to extract a good amount of information from Linear A inscriptions and their contexts of use. Current ongoing research, integrating the materiality of script with linguistic analysis, offers a cutting-edge approach with promising results. This Element considers Linear A within an investigative framework as well as narrative, shedding light on a number of burning questions in the field, often the subject of intense academic debate.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9781009520027 ((hardcover))
• 1009520024 ((hardcover))
• 9781009520065 ((paperback))
• 1009520067 ((paperback))

OCLC

1519447825

Other standard number

CIPO000232743

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