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Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 327 kr
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The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. Based on his career-long mastery of the many scholarly tools needed to interpret the contents and historical meaning of Mycenaean Greek clay tablet inscriptions, José L. Melena, with assistance on find-spots from Richard Firth and a check of the accuracy of each and every text by an editorial team of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, offers here definitive readings of these archaeologically, linguistically and historically important records. The book presents accurate information on tablet joins, find-spots, assignments of texts to scribes, sets of texts identified by subject matter and administrative purpose, and conjectural readings of partially preserved texts. The systems of reference to tablets by inventory numbers and to coherent sets of tablets by alphabetic prefixes have been streamlined. Helpful appendices make clear the classification of series and sets, tablet find locations, and the history of reconstruction of tablets through fragment joins. The volume closes with an up-to-date overall ground plan and close-up sector plans of the Palace of Minos at Knossos keyed to tablet find-spots.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 181 kr
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In 1939, on the first day of excavation at the archaeological site that he called The Palace of Nestor, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language. These documents had been unintentionally baked in a conflagration that destroyed the palace early in the 12th century B.C.Blegen, who died in 1971, planned to see published in a final volume of his excavation report all Linear B texts from Pylos. In a postscript to his foreword to Volume III of The Palace of Nestor in Western Messenia dated February 1974, John Caskey, Blegen’s successor as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, wrote: “Carl Blegen died in Athens on 24 August 1971. He had seen and verified all the manuscripts which make up the text of this book and had reviewed all the illustrations. [. . .] another task finished.” This publication of Volume IV, in two parts, finally fulfils Blegen's vision and commitment; it is the work of several generations of scholars who have remained dedicated to the enterprise.After a preliminary detailed introduction, Linear B tablets 1–616 (in part 1) and 622–1589 (in part 2) are presented accompanied by colour photographs, transcriptions and definitive epigraphical and palaeographical notes.The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia: The Inscribed Documents will be fundamental, a treasured resource, for all who study Mycenaean civilisation, its economy and its society. It is being offered at a reduced price owing to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute.