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Del 94 - Hellenic Studies Series
TA-U-RO-QO-RO
Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language, and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
259 kr
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José Luis Melena Jiménez is a peerless scholar of editing the texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second millennium BCE and explicating their linguistic and "historical" contents. This volume takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation markers and numbers in the Linear B tablets and the values of specific signs, to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean society and the dialects spoken during the proto-Homeric period of the late Bronze Age. New insights are offered into Mycenaean furniture, war chariots, pictorial vases, land cultivation, arboriculture, and shrine areas. Other papers discuss wealth finance, prestige goods, the ideology of obligatory payment, long-puzzling tax impositions, and the inevitable collapse of the palatial economic and political systems.
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.