Author: Benon Zbigniew SzałekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788387377236
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Heuristics and Cryptology in the Decipherment of the Cretan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
Author: Benon Zbigniew SzałekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788387377236
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Deciphering the Phaistos Disk and Other Cretan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
Author: Andreas FulsPublisher: Tredition Gmbh
ISBN: 9783748259190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Minoan culture on Crete existed around 2100-1420 BC leaving hundreds of inscriptions on seals, sealings and other artefacts. The most well-known inscription among them can be found on the Phaistos disk, a small clay disk with impressed signs on both sides. Deciphering it is one of the greatest challenges leading to better understanding the Minoan language and culture. First and foremost, the book offers a new general methodology in epigraphy for deciphering writing systems. Mathematical and statistical methods enable one to arrive at basic principles underlying the writing system and the root language. It allows one to begin a decipherment based on scientifically verified knowledge and to exclude false assumptions. While previous works on the Phaistos disk have either had to declare the impossibility of deciphering it or have suggested dubious interpretations based on preconceived assumptions, the present study aims to present a scientifically verifiable method for a step-by-step decipherment of the Phaistos disk. Now, by the end of the decipherment about 85% of the signs on the Phaistos disk can for the most part be read with a high degree of confidence. The discovered sound values and meanings of all the signs are then checked against other hieroglyphic inscriptions from Crete. It follows from the analysis that the Phaistos disk belongs to the writing system of both the Cretan and the Luwian hieroglyphs and that the texts are written in the Luwian language. The Phaistos disk and other Cretan-Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions can therefore be considered to belong to a uniform linguistic area which extended from Crete to Western Anatolia during the Aegean Bronze Age.
The preclassical Cypriot (or Cypro-Minoan) script and inscriptions in the light of heuristics and cryptology
Author: Benon Zbigniew SzałekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788375188516
Category : Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
The Story of Archaeological Decipherment
Author: Maurice PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extinct languages
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Linear A and Cypro-Minoan in the Light of Heuristics and Cryptology
Author: Benon Zbigniew SzałekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788360140369
Category : Cryptography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Proto-Byblian Inscriptions in the Light of Heuristics and Cryptology
Author: Benon Zbigniew SzałekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788387377045
Category : Inscriptions, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The Story of Decipherment
Author: Maurice PopePublisher:
ISBN: 9780500780015
Category : Cuneiform inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Evidence for the Minoan Language
Author: Cyrus Herzl GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A Glossary of Historical Linguistics
Author: Lyle CampbellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780748623785
Category : Historical linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Useful for those wishing to understand historical linguistic terminology and concepts, this is a glossary of key terms in the field of historical linguistics.
Indus Script Dictionary
Author: S. M. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781450770613
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description