Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Cambridge Caius College)

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B

Interpretation and Scribal Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 182mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494724
• ISBN-10: 1108494722
• Artikelnr.: 60065246

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.