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Writing in Bronze Age Crete

By Ester Salgarella

Writing in Bronze Age Crete

By Ester Salgarella

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
84
Release Date:
2025-09-18
Publication Date:
2025-08-26
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009520024
ISBN13:
9781009520027
Weight:
286 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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