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Lesson 10.13: Cretan Writing during the Old and New Palace Periods, the Nature of the Minoan Language, and the Identity of the Minoans

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

K. Branigan, “The Earliest Minoan Scripts: The Pre-palatial Background,” Kadmos 8(1969) 1-22.

E. L. Brown, “Traces of Luwian Dialect in Cretan Text and Toponyms,” SMEA 28(1990) 225-237.

E. L. Brown, “The Linear A Signary: Tokens of Luvian Dialect in Bronze Age Crete,” Minos 27-28(1993) 25-54.

E. L. Brown, “Linear A on Trojan Spindlewhorls, Luvian-based WANAX at Cnossus,” in G. Schmeling and J. D. Mikalson (eds.), Qui miscuit utile dulci: Festschrift Essays for Paul Lachlan MacKendrick (Wauconda 1997) 51-68.

M. Del Freo, “Rapport 2001-2005 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in A. Sacconi et al., Colloquium Romanum (Pisa/Rome 2008) 199-222.

M. Del Freo, “Rapport 2006-2010 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in P. Carlier, C. de Lamberterie, M. Egetmeyer, N. Guilleux, F. Rougemont, and J. Zurbach (eds.), Études mycéniennes 2010 [Actes du XXXe international sur les textes égéens] (Pisa/Rome 2012) 3-22.

J. Driessen, “Data Storage for Reference and Prediction at the Dawn of Civilization? A Review Article with Some Observations on Archives before Writing,” Minos 29-30(1997) 239-256.

Y. Duhoux, “Pre-Hellenic Language(s) of Crete,” JIES 26(1998) 1-39.

Y. Duhoux, “Minoan Language or Languages?,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 15-21.

S. Ferrara, “The Beginnings of Writing on Crete: Theory and Context,” BSA 110(2015) 27-49.

S. Ferrara, “Another Beginning’s End: Secondary Script Formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean,” in P. M. Steele (ed.), Understanding Relations between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems (Oxford 2017) 7-32.

M. Finkelberg, “Anatolian Languages and Indo-European Migrations,” CW 91(1997) 3-20.

M. Finkelberg, “The Language of Linear A: Greek, Semitic, or Anatolian?,” in R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [JIES Monograph 38] (Washington D.C. 2001) 81-105.

G. Flouda, “Materiality of Minoan Writing: Modes of Display and Perception,” in K. E. and R. D. Whitehouse (eds.), Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface, and Medium (London 2013) 143-174.

L. Godart, “Les écritures crétoises et le bassin méditerraneen,” CRAI (1994) 707-731.

L. Godart, “Le développement et la diffusion des écritures égéennes,” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 97-107.

L. Godart, A. Kanta, and A. Tzigounaki, “La bureaucratie palatiale: Naissance et évolution d'un système de pouvoir en Égée,” in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) II: 581-598.

P. Militello, “Il periodo Medio Minoico II : l’attività amministrativa,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 169-201.

B. Montecchi, “Distribution and Functions of Minoan Inscribed Clay Vessels and the Consequences for the Question of Literacy in the Bronze Age Aegean,” SMEA NS 6(2020) 49-66.

J.-P. Olivier, “Cretan Writing in the Second Millennium B.C.,” World Archaeology 17(1986) 383-387.

J.-P. Olivier, “Rapport sur les textes en hiéroglyphique crétois, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in J.-P. Olivier [ed.], Mykenaïka [Actes du IXe Colloque international sur les textes mycéniens et égéens = BCH Supplement 25] (1992) 443-456.

J.-P. Olivier, “The Inscribed Documents at Bronze Age Knossos,” in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 157-170.

J.-P. Olivier, “Les écritures crétoises: sept points à considérer,” in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) 101-113.

J.-P. Olivier, “Rapport 1991-1995 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétois, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy, S. Hiller, and O. Panagl (eds.), Floreant Studia Mycenaea I-II (Vienna 1999) 419-436.

J.-P. Olivier, “Quels reflets de la vie privée dans les écritures crétoises du IIe millénaire?,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 445-454.

J.-P. Olivier, “Rapport sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétois, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in Pasiphae 3(2009) 187-197.

G. Owens, “Evidence for the Minoan Language (1): The Minoan Libation Formula,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 163-206.

G. A. Owens, “The Common Origin of Cretan Hieroglyphics and Linear A,” Kadmos 35(1996) 105-110.

G. Owens, KRITIKA DAIDALIKA: Evidence for the Minoan Language. Selected Essays in Memory of James Hooker on the Archaeology, Epigraphy and Philology of Minoan and Mycenaean Crete (Amsterdam 1997).

G. Owens, “The Structure of the Minoan Language,” JIES 27(1999) 15-55.

G. Owens, Labyrinth: Scripts and Languages of Minoan and Mycenaean Crete (Heraklion 2007).

T. G. Palaima, “Origin, Development, Transition and Transformation: The Purposes and Techniq ues of Administration in Minoan and Mycenaean Society,” in T. G. Palaima (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings, and Administration [Aegaeum 5] (Liège/Austin 1990) 83-104.

T. G. Palaima, “Problems in Minoan and Mycenaean Writing Style and Practice: The Strange Case of *33 ra3 on Pylos Tablet An 61,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 3-14.

A. Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou, “Crète minoenne et Chypre: La transmission et la diffusion d’une écriture linéaire,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 203-215.

G. Rendsburg, “'Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan': Minoan Linear A as a West Semitic Dialect,” Biblical Archaeologist 59(1996) 36-43.

C. Renfrew, “Who Were the Minoans? Towards a Population History of Prehistoric Crete,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 1-27.

C. Renfrew, “Word of Minos: The Minoan Contribution to Mycenaean Greek and the Linguistic Geography of the Bronze Age Aegean,” CAJ 8:2(1998) 239-264.

C. Renfrew, “The Loom of Language and the Versailles Effect,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 711-719.

I. Schoep, “Ritual, Politics and Script on Minoan Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 1(1994) 7-25.

I. Schoep, “Towards an Interpretation of Different Levels of Administration in Late Minoan IB Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 3(1996) 75-85.

I. Schoep, “The Origins of Writing and Administration on Crete,” OJA 18(1999) 265-275.

I. Schoep, “The Development of Writing on Crete in EM III–MM IIB (ca 2200–1750/00 B.C.),” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 43-54.

H. Whittaker, “Social and Symbolic Aspects of Minoan Writing,” EJA 8(2005) 29-41.

J. G. Younger and P. Rehak, “Minoan Culture: Religion, Burial Customs, and Administration,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 105-120.


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