Cypro-minoan Inscriptions - The Corpus

Informationen zum Autor Silvia Ferrara is a Research Fellow at the University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. Klappentext The first comprehensive archaeological catalogue of all the inscriptions written in the un-deciphered syllabary of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500-1200 BC): Cypro-Minoan script. Each object is analysed, illustrated, and accompanied by a detailed commentary on the context of recovery and typological characteristics with full bibliographical references. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive archaeological catalogue of all the inscriptions written in the un-deciphered syllabary of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500-1200 BC): Cypro-Minoan script. Each object is analysed, illustrated, and accompanied by a detailed commentary on the context of recovery and typological characteristics with full bibliographical references. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations and Plates Introduction: An Archaeological Corpus 1.1: Historical Background 1.2: Definition of the Corpus 1.3: Corpus Structure and Order of Entry 1.4: Additions (ADD ##218-##243) 1.5: Appendices THE INSCRIPTIONS: ##001-##243 Appendices List of Cypro-Minoan Objects and their Functions Sign Variants General Bibliography

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• Authors: Silvia Ferrara, Silvia (Research Fellow Ferrara, Ferrara Silvia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.05.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199693825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969382-5
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Historical and comparative linguistics