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Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions
Silvia Ferrara
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Volume 1: Analysis
出版OUP Oxford, 2012-01-19
主題History / Ancient / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing SystemsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & ClassicalSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN01996075759780199607570
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pV1MmJWUrxkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan. After Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, other un-deciphered scripts of the second millennium BC from the Aegean world (Linear A) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cypro-Minoan) became the focus of those trying to crack this ancient and historical code. Despite several attempts for both syllabaries, this prospect has remained unrealized. This is especially true for Cypro-Minoan, the script of Late Bronze Age Cyprus found also at Ugarit in Syria, which, counting no more than 250 inscriptions, remains not only poorly documented, but also insufficiently explored in previous scholarship. Today progress in the study of this enigmatic script demands that we direct our attention to gaining new insight through a contextual analysis of Cypro-Minoan by tracing its life in the archaeological record and investigating its purpose and significance in the Cypriot and Syrian settlements that created and used it. With a new methodology concentrating on a ground-breaking contextual approach, Ferrara presents the first large-scale study of Cypro-Minoan with an analysis of all the inscriptions through a multidisciplinary perspective that embraces aspects of archaeology, epigraphy, and palaeography.