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Title Understanding relations between scripts : the Aegean writing systems / edited by Philippa M. Steele.

Publication Info. Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Aegean writing systems: Philippa M. Steele; 2. Another beginning's end: Secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean: Silvia Ferrara; 3. Cretan 'Hieroglyphic' and the nature of script: Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte; 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system -- different patterns in their development: Helena Tomas; 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the 'Mycenaean' literate administrations: Vassilis Petrakis.
6. From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values: Philippa M. Steele and Torsten Meißner7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: The evidence of the 'extra' signs: Anna P. Judson; 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan: Miguel Valério; 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script?: Yves Duhoux; 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: An overview on the occasion of two new inscriptions: Markus Egetmeyer; Bibliography.
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Subject Inscriptions, Linear B.
Inscriptions, Linear B.
Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan.
Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan.
Inscriptions, Linear A.
Inscriptions, Linear A.
Writing -- Aegean Sea Region.
Writing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Steele, Philippa M., 1983- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Understanding relations between scripts. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785706448 (DLC) 2017015744
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