| #4551748 in Books | 2012-03-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x1.00 x9.80l,2.06 | File type: PDF | 344 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Moving Beyond Decipherment: Silvia Ferrara's 'Holistic' Approach to an Unreadable Script|By Jeff|THE `CYPRO-MINOAN' SCRIPT of Bronze Age Cyprus has baffled scholars since its discovery at the turn of the twentieth century. Though it has been found in several locations on Cyprus and at the Late Bronze Age trading emporium of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, several missing pieces hav||make a substantial, much-needed contribution to the field of Cypriot epigraphy. Thanks to Silvia Ferrara, we can now see a large number of Cypro-Minoan inscriptions in context and understand their media in a more comprehensive manner. Moreover, the author vind
This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan. After Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, other un-deciphered scripts of the second millennium B.C. from the Aegean world (Linear A) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cypro-Minoan) became the focus of those trying to crack this ancient and historical code. Despite several attempts for both syllabaries, this prospect has remained un...
You easily download any file type for your device.Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume 1: Analysis | Silvia Ferrara. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
