Philippa M. Steele - Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems

Understanding Relations Between Scripts

The Aegean Writing Systems

edited by

Philippa M. Steele

Published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by

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Names: Steele, Philippa M., editor.

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

Description: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017015744 (print) | LCCN 2017019903 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785706455 (epub) | ISBN 9781785706462 (mobi) | ISBN 9781785706479 (pdf) | ISBN 9781785706448 (pb)

Subjects: LCSH: Inscriptions, Linear B. | Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan. | Inscriptions, Linear A. | Writing--Aegean Sea Region.

Classification: LCC P1035 (ebook) | LCC P1035 .U53 2017 (print) | DDC 487/.1--dc23

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Front cover image: Linear B tablet. Photograph courtesy of Silvia Ferrara.

Back cover: Cypro-Minoan tablet. Photograph courtesy of Silvia Ferrara.

To the memory of our dear friend, Anna Morpurgo Davies

The conference attendants, taken at the dinner in the Parlour Room, Magdalene College. Photo by James Bowe.

Cake depicting the early Cypro-Minoan inscription ##001 ENKO Atab 001, made by Anna Judson. Photo by Anna Judson.

List of figures

Figure 3.1	CHIC #256/CMS VI,95a-c. Evans keeper of the swine.
Figure 3.2	CHIC #262/CMS XII,117. Face a-b with supposed formulae 036-092-031 and 038-010-031 .
Figure 3.3	Instances of 044-005 with recurring CHIC signs.
Figure 3.4	Instances of just 044-005 and 044-049 on a single seal-face according to CHIC.
Figure 3.5	CHIC #56.
Figure 3.6	Selected instances of 044-005 with recurring Jasink signs.
Figure 3.7	Left: CHIC #300c/CMS X,52c. Right: CHIC #131/CMS II.6,179.
Figure 3.8	CHIC #309a.
Figure 3.9	Impressions and drawings of #308g-d in CHIC. Image courtesy of J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart.
Figure 3.10	All instances of 044 on clay documents in CHIC.
Figure 3.11	Phonetic complementation in Mayan: jaguar in logographic, phonetic and phonetically complemented logographic form.
Figure 3.12	The royal name Yaxun Balam or Bird-Jaguar on Yaxchilan lintel 43 and lintel 30 and further examples of preposed, postposed and full phonetic complementation in iterations of the word WAY spirit/co-essence, and MUYAL cloud.
Figure 3.13	Left: opening lines of the famous law code of Hammurabi. Right: dingir in art, accompanying a ewe suckling a lamb on a 13th century BC cylinder from Ashur.
Figure 3.14	Elements signifying night animals, human body parts, and the syllabic doubling sign accompanying the word ka-wa.
Figure 3.15	Possible ligatures in sealings found on the Knossos crescent nodules.
Figure 3.16	Tentative identification of script values in figurative sealing CMS II.8,195.
Figures 3.17 and 3.18	CHIC #207b/CMS II.1,420b and CHIC#274a/CMS XII,105a.
Figure 3.19	Row 1: CHIC #298d/CMS XI,14b; CHIC #298b/CMS XI,14d; CHIC #147/CMS II.8,88. Row 2: CHIC #268a/CMS III,229a; CHIC #309b; CHIC #309g. Row 3: CHIC #268b/CMS III,229b; CHIC #161/CMS II.8,83.
Figure 5.1	The three-sided bar from the Knossos Hieroglyphic Deposit KN Hg 01 = CHIC #048; and the three-sided bar MA 2 from the Malia Dpt Hiroglyphique .
Figure 5.2	CH commodity signs * 164*165 on the three-sided bar from the Knossos Hieroglyphic Deposit KN Hg 01 = CHIC #048 and LA commodity sign AB 180 on tablets MA 4 and MA 6 from the Malia Dpt Hiroglyphique .
Figure 5.3	Klasmatograms (fractional signs) used on CH clay documents. Numbers refer to CHIC documents. Images after CHIC , 429430, rearranged by the author. Courtesy of Professors Louis Godart and Jean-Pierre Olivier.
Figure 7.1	The Linear B core syllabary.
Figure 7.2	The Linear B extra signs.
Figure 7.3	Correspondences of labialised and palatalised signs in the Cretan scripts.
Figure 7.4	twe (KN So(1) 4430.b: after COMIK ).
Figure 7.5	AB87 (HT 126.b2|-3: after GORILA ).
Figure 7.6	AB118 (HT 13.5, KN 2.2, KN Za 19.2: after GORILA ).
Figure 7.7	L KN Oa 730: after COMIK ; PY Ja 749.
Figure 7.8	dwo (KN Fh 360.b: after COMIK ; PY Ep 539.12.
Figure 8.1	Oliviers general table of CM 13 syllabograms.
Figure 8.2	Attestations of form CM1 39.
Figure 8.3	Attestations of form CM2 49.
Figure 8.4	Homomorphous and homophonous signs of simple design in the Aegean-Cypriot scripts.
Figure 8.5	Consensual or near-consensual hypothetical values of Cypro-Minoan syllabograms from comparative approaches.
Figure 8.6	Phonetic values of Linear A syllabograms.