Syllabic writing on Cyprus and its context / edited by Philippa M. Steele.
"This volume offers a new and interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus. A team of distinguished scholars tackles epigraphic, palaeographic, linguistic, archaeological, historical and terminological problems relating to the island's writing systems in the Late Bronz...
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| Superior document: | Cambridge classical studies |
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 191 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: syllabic writing on Cyprus and its context Philippa M. Steele; 1. The development of Cypriot syllabaries, from Enkomi to Kafizin Jean-Pierre Olivier; 2. Non-Greek languages of ancient Cyprus and their scripts: Cypro-Minoan 1-3 Yves Duhoux; 3. Writing in Cypro-Minoan: one script, too many? Silvia Ferrara; 4. Late Cypriot writing in context Susan Sherratt; 5. From the Cypro-Minoan to the Cypro-Greek syllabaries: linguistic remarks on the script reform Markus Egetmeyer; 6. The Cypriot syllabary as a royal signature: the political context of the syllabic script in the Iron Age Maria Iacovou; 7. Rethinking some alphabetic and syllabic Cypriot inscriptions Massimo Perna.