Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers : At Home and Overseas / Cassandra M. Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Cassandra M., author.

Series:

Elements in Writing in the Ancient World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions.

Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Poised as middlemen between the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, writers of Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered Late Bronze Age script of Cyprus, borrowed and transformed writing practices from their neighbors and invented new ones. Bits and pieces of the script are found throughout the Mediterranean, but there are few clay tablets, characteristic of neighboring scribal-based, administrative writing traditions. Instead, Cypro-Minoan writers wrote on mercantile objects, outside of scribal schools. As the administrative centers of the eastern Mediterranean collapsed c. 1177 BCE administrative writing systems went with them. Cypro-Minoan remained in use, presaging the spread of the Phoenician alphabet. This Element explores the role of writing and trade during the collapse period and introduces readers to the Cypro-Minoan script, its history, and approaches to its decipherment, showing that writers of an undeciphered script can still communicate when we take the care to look for them

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Dec 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009381833

1009381830

9781009381819

1009381814

9781009381840

1009381849