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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B

Interpretation and Scribal Practices

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Buch | Hardcover
372 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49472-4 (ISBN)
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Provides valuable insights into the development and use of the Linear B writing system and important methodological advances in investigating the Linear B texts' chronology and the activities of their writers. Of value to classicists, Mycenaean Greek archaeologists, and linguists working on writing systems.
Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values. Analysis of Linear B's structure and usage not only establishes these signs' most likely sound-values – providing the best possible basis for future decipherments – but also sheds light on the writing system as a whole. The undeciphered signs are also used to explore the evidence provided by palaeography for the chronology of the Linear B documents and the activities of the Mycenaean scribes. The conclusions presented in this book therefore deepen our understanding not only of the undeciphered signs but also of the Linear B writing system as a whole, the texts it was used to write, and the insight these documents bring us into the world of the Mycenaean palaces. A colour version of figures 5.1-5.4 of chapter 5 can be found under the 'Resources' tab.

Anna P. Judson is a Research Fellow in Classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Her Ph.D. thesis on the undeciphered signs of Linear B won the University of Cambridge's Hare Prize for the best Classics thesis. She is now researching the writing practices of the Mycenaean scribes.

1. The (ongoing) decipherment of Linear B; 2. Identifying 'missing' values in the Linear B syllabary; 3. The undeciphered signs inherited from Linear A; 4. The undeciphered signs with no certain Linear A correspondences; 5. Exploring the potential of palaeography with the undeciphered signs; Conclusions; Appendix: corpus of attestations of the undeciphered signs.

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Reihe/Serie Cambridge Classical Studies
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 22 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 183 Halftones, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 253 mm
Gewicht 900 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Paläografie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-49472-2 / 1108494722
ISBN-13 978-1-108-49472-4 / 9781108494724
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