Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos, Vol. 1: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear ... Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and - Softcover
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Comprehensive study of Minoan writing, illustrated with photographs and careful analysis
This volume presents a complete corpus of Minoan Crete’s written records, assembled to support further study of this ancient script. It combines photographic facsimiles with copies of the documents and a critical apparatus to help readers understand how the scripts evolved across time.
The work outlines the genesis and relationships of the Minoan signs, from primitive pictographs to hieroglyphic and linear scripts, and it places them within Crete’s broader cultural history. While it remains a foundational, text-centered reference, it also lays the groundwork for future interpretation and transliteration as new evidence emerges.- A first-hand collection of the surviving signs, signs orders, and signaries, with careful documentation
- Explanatory catalogues showing how different documents form a connected writing system
- Analysis of numeration, formulas, and the evolution of sign groups across periods
- Contextual discussion linking Minoan writing to broader Mediterranean interactions and early literacy
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Sir Arthur Evans was born in 1851 and educated at Harrow School, Brasenose College, Oxford and the University of Gottingen. He is most famous for his work on the palace of Knossos in Crete, which he identified as the centre of the thriving civilisation he dubbed 'Minoan', but he was also passionately interested in the history and archaeology of the Balkans and travelled extensively in the area as the regional correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in the 1880s. From 1884 to 1908 he was Curator of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and his numerous books include "The Palace of Minos, Scripta Minoa, The Adriatic Slavs and the Overland Route to Constantinople" and "Ancient Illyria" (I.B.Tauris).
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