Writing in Bronze Age Crete
€28.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781009520065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ester Salgarella |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 75 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.134 |
| Publishing Date | 18/09/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €27.26 |
| Tax | €1.64 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €28.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally named 'Minoan' Linear A script, used on Crete and the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1800–1450 BCE). Linear A is still undeciphered, and the language it encodes ('Minoan') thus remains elusive. Notwithstanding, scholars have been able to extract a good amount of information from Linear A inscriptions and their contexts of use. Current ongoing research, integrating the materiality of script with linguistic analysis, offers a cutting-edge approach with promising results. This Element considers Linear A within an investigative framework as well as narrative, shedding light on a number of burning questions in the field, often the subject of intense academic debate.