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Writing in Bronze Age Crete

‘Minoan' Linear A

Expected online publication date:  07 July 2025

Ester Salgarella
Affiliation:
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University

Summary

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). 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 which has given promising results. This volume guides readers through a set of questions about Linear A within an investigative framework as well as narrative, with a view to throwing light on a number of burning questions in the field, often subject of intense academic debate.
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Online ISBN: 9781009520041
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Writing in Bronze Age Crete
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Writing in Bronze Age Crete
  • Ester Salgarella, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University
  • Online ISBN: 9781009520041
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