Minoan Linear A
Author: David W. Packard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0520332075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David W. Packard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0520332075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ester Salgarella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1108479383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Author: Lee Buchwalder
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781735187419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The language of the Minoan people has remained an enigma for more than a century since their ancient civilization was discovered. The script that records it, known as Linear A, has long been thought to use the same sounds and symbols as its successor-Linear B. After Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, and was found to represent an archaic form of Greek, the language of the earlier Linear A script continued to defy all those attempting to read it. A recent insight regarding synonym-parallels in ancient Minoan texts has now illuminated their meaning for the first time. This book guides the reader through the Linear A decipherment process and provides English translations for many of the most important Minoan artifacts. So enter the labyrinth as Europe's first great civilization is finally given voice after three and a half thousand years, and discover how its people have actually been speaking to us all along.
Author: John Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-13
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521398305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Michael Ventris and his decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script.
Author: David W. Packard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520025806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brent Eric Davis
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789042930971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants' intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking. The seasonality of these rituals suggests that they were focused on the cycle of life: fertility, birth, death and renewal. Offerings left with the vessels suggest that these rituals also addressed other, more personal concerns. As for Linear A itself: the language behind the script appears to contain a fairly standard phonemic inventory, though there are hints of additional, more exotic phonemes. The morphology of the language appears to involve affixation, a typical mode of inflection in human languages. The presence of significant prefixing tends to rule out PIE as a parent language, while the word-internal vowel alternations typical of Afroasiatic verbal inflection are nowhere to be found in this script. In the end, Linear A appears most likely to represent a non-IE, non-Afroasiatic language, perhaps with agglutinative tendencies, and perhaps with VSO word order.
Author: John Chadwick
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains what is known about the ancient writing systems used by Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.
Author: Philippa Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1785706454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the relationships between the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan 'Hieroglyphic', Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary, demonstrating the great advances made by inter-disciplinary studies.
Author: Graham James K. Campbell-Dunn
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Graham Campbell - Dunn
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781425920074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lakota Winds narrates the battle of the Little Big Horn as seen through the eyes of the Sioux. It is a fast-paced story bringing to life that fateful encounter between Custer's 7th Cavalry and the Sioux and Cheyenne. Never again would Native Americans assemble in such numbers as they did on that day in 1876, and never again would they inflict such a punishing defeat upon the United States military. Lakota Winds recaptures these precious hours of Sioux heritage. Matowla, Tankala Pay-ta, Unci, Osota, and Ishna were all witnesses to this final episode of the era of the Plains Indian. These characters represent the thousands of Lakota and Cheyenne who were camped along the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn River) that summer morning when Custer's troops attacked. Matowla, Pay-ta, Unci, and Ishna have been entrusted to act as vocal embassies for their historical counterparts. It will be their obligation to speak for a people whose voices have all but been stilled by the passage of time.