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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B By Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B by Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)


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Provides valuable insights into the development and use of the Linear B writing system and important methodological advances in investigating the Linear B texts' chronology and the activities of their writers. Of value to classicists, Mycenaean Greek archaeologists, and linguists working on writing systems.

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B Summary

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices by Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values. Analysis of Linear B's structure and usage not only establishes these signs' most likely sound-values providing the best possible basis for future decipherments but also sheds light on the writing system as a whole. The undeciphered signs are also used to explore the evidence provided by palaeography for the chronology of the Linear B documents and the activities of the Mycenaean scribes. The conclusions presented in this book therefore deepen our understanding not only of the undeciphered signs but also of the Linear B writing system as a whole, the texts it was used to write, and the insight these documents bring us into the world of the Mycenaean palaces. A colour version of figures 5.1-5.4 of chapter 5 can be found under the 'Resources' tab.

About Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Anna P. Judson is a Research Fellow in Classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Her Ph.D. thesis on the undeciphered signs of Linear B won the University of Cambridge's Hare Prize for the best Classics thesis. She is now researching the writing practices of the Mycenaean scribes.

Table of Contents

1. The (ongoing) decipherment of Linear B; 2. Identifying 'missing' values in the Linear B syllabary; 3. The undeciphered signs inherited from Linear A; 4. The undeciphered signs with no certain Linear A correspondences; 5. Exploring the potential of palaeography with the undeciphered signs; Conclusions; Appendix: corpus of attestations of the undeciphered signs.

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NPB9781108494724
9781108494724
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices by Anna P. Judson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
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Cambridge University Press
2020-09-24
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