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Lesson 10.15: Linear A

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

S. Alexiou and W. Brice, “A Silver Pin from Mavro Spelio with an Inscription in Linear A: Her. Mus. 540,” Kadmos 11(1972) 113-124.

S. Alexiou and W. Brice, “A Silver Pin from Platanos with an Inscription in Linear A: Her. Mus. 498,” Kadmos 15(1976) 18-27.

K. Aartun, Die Minoische Schrift. Sprache und Texte II: Linear A - Inschriften (Wiesbaden 1997).

M. Beloyianni, “Semeia kai lexeis tes Grammikes A kai B graphes os tekmeria yia ten askese tes kalathoplektikes technes sten proïstorike Ellada,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos yia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 640-644.

J. Bennet, “Now You See It; Now You Don’t! The Disappearance of the Linear A Script on Crete,” in J. Baines, J. Bennet, and S. Houston (eds.), The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication (London 2008) 1-29.

E. L. Bennett, Jr., “The Three R's of the Linear A and Linear B Writing Systems,” Semiotica 122(1998) 139-163.

S. M. Bennett and G. A. Owens, “The Dating of the Linear A Inscriptions from Thera,” Kadmos 38(1999) 12-18.

J. Best, “The Ancient Toponyms of Mallia: A Post-Eurocentric Reading of Egyptianizing Bronze Age Documents,” Talanta 28-29(1996-97) 99-129.

W. C. Brice, Inscriptions in the Minoan Linear Script of Class A (Oxford 1961).

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.

G. P. Carratelli, “Nuove epigrafi minoiche di Festo,” ASAtene 35-36(1957) 363-388.

C. Consani (ed.), Krete tis gai' esti: Studi e ricerche intorno ai testi minoici (Rome 1996).

C. Consani, “Preliminari ad uno studio delle iscrizioni minoiche di carattere non amministrativo,” SMEA 40(1998) 205-217.

N. Cucuzza, “Iscrizioni nascoste? Nota su due epigrafi in lineare A da Haghia Triada,” in I. Caloi and G. Baldacci (eds.), RHADAMANTHYS. Studi di archeologia minoica in onore di Filippo Carinci per il suo 70o compleanno [BAR-IS 2884] (Oxford 2018) 179-186.

C. Davaras, “Three New Linear A Libation Vessel Fragments from Petsophas,” Kadmos 20(1981) 1-6.

C. Davaras and W. C. Brice, “A Fragment of a Libation Table Inscribed in Linear A from Vrysinas,” Kadmos 16(1977) 5-6.

B. E. Davis, Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions [Aegaeum 36] (Leuven 2014).

B. Davis and M. Valério, “Names and Designations of People in Linear A: A Contextual Study of Ht 85 and 117,” 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) 23-32.

M. Del Freo, “Wool Working at Hagia Triada: The HT 24 Tablet and the 45 Noduli from the Quartiere Sudovest,” 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) 55-66.

N. Dimopoulou, J.-P. Olivier, and G. Rethemiotakis, “Une statuette en argile avec inscription en Linéaire A de Poros/Irakliou,” BCH 117(1993) 501-521.

Y. Duhoux, “Le linéaire A: problèmes de déchiffrement,” in Y. Duhoux, T. G. Palaima, and E. L. Bennett [eds.], Problems in Decipherment (Louvain-la-Neuve 1989) 59-119.

Y. Duhoux, “LA > B da-ma-te = Démeter? Sur la langue du linéaire A,” Minos 29-30(1994-95) 289-294.

Y. Duhoux, “La langue du linéaire A est-elle anatolienne?,” in M. Mazoyer and O. Casabonne (eds.), Antiquus Oriens. Mélanges offerts au Professeur René Lebrun (Paris 2004) 207-228.

Y. Duhoux, “Linéaire A KU-RO, ‘Total’ vel sim.: Sémitique ou langue ‘exotique’?,” Kadmos 50(2011) 1-13.

A. J. Evans, Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos 1: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes (Oxford 1909).

G. M. Facchetti, “Statistical Data and Morphematic Elements in Linear A,” Kadmos 38(1999) 1-11.

P. Faure, “Deux inscriptions en écriture linéaire A découvertes à Troie par Schliemann,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 137-146.

P. Faure, “Le Linéaire A aux origines de la langue grecque,” Connaissance Hellénique 77(1998) 39-45.

M. Finkelberg, “Minoan Inscriptions on Libation Vessels,” Minos 25-26(1990-91) 43-86.

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

M. Finkelberg, “On Signs AB 41 and AB 53 in the Linear A Syllabary,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 37-49.

M. Finkelberg, A. Uchitel, and D. Ussishkin, “A Linear A Inscription from Tel Lachish (Lach ZA 1),” Tel Aviv 23(1996) 195-207.

C. R. Floyd, “Fragments from Two Pithoi with Linear A Inscriptions from Pseira,” Kadmos 34(1995) 39-48.

A. Franceschetti, “Le tazze ad iscrizione dipinta in Lineare A provenienti da Cnosso,” Minos 25-26(1990-91) 37-42.

L. Godart, “La scrittura lineare A,” PdP 31(1976) 30-47.

L. Godart, “Le linéaire A et son environnement,” SMEA 20(1979) 27-42.

L. Godart, “Du Linéaire A au Linéaire B,” in Aux origines de l'hellénisme: Hommage à Henri van Effenterre (Paris 1984) 121-128.

L. Godart, “L’écriture d’Arkhanès: hiéroglyphique ou Linéaire A?,” 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) 299-302.

L. Godart and J.-P. Olivier, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A  I-V [Études Crétoises 21.1-5] (Paris 1976-1985).

E. Hallager, “Linear A and Linear B Inscriptions from the Excavations at Kastelli, Khania, 1964-1972,” 

Opuscula Atheniensia 11(1975) 53-86.

E. Hallager, “One Linear A Tablet and 45 Noduli,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 105-109.

E. Hallager, “Literacy at Petras and Three Hitherto Unpublished Linear A Inscriptions,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 265-276.

E. Hallager and M. Vlasakis, “Two New Roundels with Linear A from Khania,” Kadmos 23(1984) 1-10.

S. Hood, “A Monumental Linear Inscription from Knossos,” Kadmos 36(1997) 111-117.

R. Janko, “A Stone Inscribed in Linear A from Ayios Stephanos, Laconia,” Kadmos 21(1982) 97-100.

R. Janko, “The Linear A Inscription,” in W. D. Taylour and R. Janko (eds.), Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia [BSA Supplementary Volume 44] (London 2008) 441-443.

A. Karetsou, L. Godart, and J.-P. Olivier, “Inscriptions en linéaire A du sanctuaire de sommet du mont Iuktas,” Kadmos 24(1985) 89-147.

A. Karetsou, L. Godart, and J.-P. Olivier, “Une nouvelle inscription en linéaire A du sanctuaire de sommet du Mont Iuktas (IO Za 16),” Minos 37-38(2002-03) 437-447.

A. Karnava and I. Nikolakopoulou, “A Pithos Fragment with a Linear A Inscription from Akrotiri, Thera,” SMEA 47(2005) 213-225.

E. Kyriakidis, “Indications on the Nature of the Language of the Keftiw from Egyptian Sources,” Ägypten und Levante 12(2002) 211-219.

H. La Marle, “Minoan Metallurgy and Linear A: Definitions, Lexical Slides and Technological Changes,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 183-193.

V. La Rosa, “F. Halbherr e la lineare A: un incontro mancato,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 77-94.

P. Militello, “Due iscrizioni minoiche da Phaistos,” Sileno 16(1990) 325-341.

P. Militello, “Per una classificazione degli archive nel mondo egeo,” Sileno 17(1991) 327-347.

P. Militello, “Amministrazione e contabilità a Festòs II: Il contesto archeologico dei documenti palatini,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 51-91.

P. Militello, “A Notebook by Halbherr and the Findspots of the Ayia Triada Tablets,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 111-120.

P. Militello, “Ayia Triada Tablets, Findspots and Scribes. A Reappraisal,” Pasiphae 5(2011) 59-70.

P. Militello, “La fornace da vasaio TM IB di Haghia Triada. Una riconsiderazione della tavoletta HT 31,” Creta Antica 12(2011) 273-287.

B. Montecchi, “Planning a Feast in Neopalatial Crete: A Look at the Linear A Evidence,” ASAtene 89(2011) 111-133.

B. Montecchi, Contare a Haghia Triada. Le tavolette in lineare A, i documenti sigillati e il sistema economico-amministrativo nel TM IB [Incunabula Graeca 107] (Rome 2019).

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.

P. Muhly and J.-P. Olivier, “Linear A Inscriptions from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete,” ArchEph 147(2008) 197-223.

G. Nagy, “Greek-like Elements in Linear A,” GRBS 4(1963) 181-211.

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta, “Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 335-342.

W.-D. Niemeier, “A Linear A Inscription from Miletus (MIL Zb 1),” Kadmos 35(1996) 87-99.

K. Nikolidaki and G. Owens, “The Minoan Libation Formula - Practical Considerations,” in Cretan Studies 4(1994) 149-155.

M.-L. Nosch, “From Texts to Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur (eds.), KOSMOS: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 33] (Leuven/Liège 2012) 43-53.

C. Obsomer, “Hérodote II 148 à l’origine du mot Labyrinthos? La Minotauromachie revisitée,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 105-186.

J.-P. Olivier, “'Lire' le Linéaire A?,” in J. Bingen, G. Cambier, and G. Nachtergael (eds.), Le monde grec: pensée, littérature, histoire, documents: Hommages à Claire Preaux (Brussels 1975) 441-449.

J.-P. Olivier, “Le bague en or de Mavro Spelio et son inscription en linéaire A,” in L. Hadermann-Misguich and G. Raepsaet (eds.), Rayonnement grec: Hommages à Charles Delvoye (Brussels 1982) 15-26.

J.-P. Olivier, “Rapport 1991-1995 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy, S. Hiller, O. Panagl, G. Nightingale, and T. Lindner (eds.), Floreant Studia Mycenaea (Vienna 1999) 419-435.

J.-P. Olivier, “Rapport 1996-2000 sur les texts en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B,” Pasiphae 3(2009) 187-198.

J.-P. Olivier, L. Godart, and R. Laffineur, “Une épingle minoenne en or,” BCH 105(1981) 3-25.

G. Owens, “A Linear A Inscription from Larani, Crete, in the Metaxas Collection Heraklion - LA Zb 1 - Once Written, Twice Tried,” Cretan Studies 4(1994) 157-164.

G. Owens, “Evidence for the Minoan Language: The Minoan Libation Formula,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 163-208.

G. A. Owens, “The Theran Linear A Inscriptions,” Kadmos 35(1996) 168-169.

G. A. Owens, “Linear A Inscriptions at Entrances to Buildings,” Kadmos 35(1996) 169-171.

G. Owens, “Further Comments on the Linear A Inscriptions from Thera,” Kadmos 36(1997) 172-173.

G. A. Owens, “Linear A in the Aegean: The Further Travels of the Minoan Script. A Study of the 30+ Extra-Cretan Minoan Inscriptions,” 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) 583-597.

G. Owens, “E minoïke epigraphe apo to Diktaion Antron,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 455-466.

G. A. Owens and G. Trench, “A Possible Reading of Linear A PH Zb 4,” Kadmos 35(1996) 171-172.

D. W. Packard, Minoan Linear A (Berkeley 1974).

T. G. Palaima, “Linear A in the Cyclades: The Trade and Travel of a Script,” TUAS 7(1982) 15-22.

T. G. Palaima, “The Inscribed Bronze ‘Kessel’ from Shaft Grave IV and Cretan Heirlooms of the Bronze Artist Named ‘Aigeus’ vel sim. in the Mycenaean Palatial Period,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 187-201.

R. Palmer, “Linear A Commodities: A Comparison of Resources,” in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 133-155.

R. Palmer, “Wine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegean,” in P. E. McGovern, S. J. Fleming, and S. H. Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Philadelphia 1995) 269-285.

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

M. Perna, “Ideograms of Vases and Fractions in Linear A Script,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 343-347.

M. Perna, “The Birth of Administration and Writing in Minoan Crete: Some Thoughts on Hieroglyphics and Linear A,” in D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James (eds.), KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine [Prehistory Monographs 46] 251-259.

M. Perna, A. Kanta, and L. Tyree, “An Unpublished Inscription in Linear A from the Skoteino Cave, Crete (SKO Zc 1),” in M. Perna (ed.), Studi in onore di Enrica Fiandra: Contributi di archeologia greca e vicinorientale [Studi egei e vicinorientali 1] (Paris 2005) 323-333.

A. Fol and R. Schmitt, “A Linear A Text on a Clay Reel from Drama, South-East Bulgaria?,” PZ 75(2000) 56-62.

M. Pope, “Cretan Axe-heads with Linear A Inscriptions,” BSA 51(1956) 132-135.

M. Pope, “The Cretulae and the Linear A Accounting System,” BSA 55(1960) 200-210.

M. Pope, Aegean Writing and Linear A (Göteborg 1964).

M. R. Popham, M. Pope, and J. Raison, “An Inscribed Pithoid Jar from Knossos,” Kadmos 15(1976) 102-107.

G. Pugliese Carratelli, “Le inscrizioni preelleniche di Haghia Triada in Creta e della Grecia peninsulare,” Monumenti Antichi 40(1945) 422-610.

J. Raison and M. Pope, Index transnuméré du linéaire A (Louvain 1977).

J. Raison and M. Pope, Corpus transnuméré du linéaire A (Louvain 1980).

J. Raison and M. Pope, “Linear A: Changing Perspectives,” in Y. Duhoux (ed.), Études minoennes I (Louvain 1978) 5-64.

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

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

J. Sakellarakis and J.-P. Olivier, “Un vase en pierre avec inscription en linéaire A du sanctuaire de sommet minoen de Cythère,” BCH 118(1994) 343-351.

E. Salgarella, Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship between Linear A and Linear B (Cambridge 2020).

I. Schoep, “Some Notes on Linear A ‘Transaction Signs’,” Minos 29-30(1994-95) 57-76.

I. Schoep, “Context and Chronology of Linear A Administrative Documents,” Aegean Archaeology 2(1995) 29-65.

I. Schoep, Minoan Administration on Crete. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Documents in Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leuven 1996).

I. Schoep, The Administration of Neopalatial Crete: A Critical Assessment of the Linear A Tablets and Their Role in the Administrative Process [Minos Supplement 17] (Salamanca 2002).

I. Schoep, “The Social and Political Context of Linear A Writing on Crete,” in K. Lomas, R. D. Whitehouse, and J. B. Wilkins (eds.), Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean (London 2007) 53-62. 

J. S. Smith, “Writing Styles in Clay of the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age,” in N. C. Stampolidis and V. Karageorghis (eds.), PLOES . . . Sea Routes . . .: Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th – 6th c. BC (Athens 2003) 277-289.

P. M, Steele and T. Meissner, “From Linear B to Linear A: The Problem of the Backward Projection of Sound Values,” in P. M. Steele (ed.), Understanding Relations between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems (Oxford 2017) 93-110.

E. Teneva, “Die minoische Libationsformel: Zum ‘Namen’ (J)A-SA-SA-RA,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 345-362.

H. Tomas, “Who Were the Readers of Linear A Inscriptions?,” in A. Brysbaert, N. de Bruijn, E. Gibson, A. Michael, and M. Monaghan (eds.), SOMA 2002: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology [BAR-IS 1142] (Oxford 2003) 129-139.

H. Tomas, “Linear A versus Linear B Administrative Systems in the Sphere of Religious Matters,” in I. Boehm and S. Müller-Celka (eds.), Espace civil, espace religieux en Égée durant la période mycénienne (Lyon 2010) 121-133.

H. Tomas, “Linear A Scribes and Their Writing Styles,” Pasiphae 5(2011) 35-58.

H. Tomas, “Epigraphical Features of Minoan Texts in Linear A,” Pasiphae 11(2017) 93-103.

M. Tsipopoulou and E. Hallager, “Inscriptions with Hieroglyphs and Linear A from Petras, Siteia,” SMEA 37(1996) 7-46.

A. Uchitel, “Records of Conscription, Taxation and Monthly Rations in Linear A Archives,” Minos 29-30(1994-95) 77-86.

A. Uchitel and M. Finkelberg, “Some Possible Identifications in the Headings of the Linear A Archives,” SMEA 36(1995) 29-36.

F. Vandenabeele, “Les idéogrammes de vases sur les tablettes en linéaire A de Haghia Triada et Phaistos,” BCH 98(1974) 5-21.

F. Vandenabeele, “La chronologie des documents en Linéaire A,” BCH 109(1985) 3-20.

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J. Younger, “The Myrtos-Pyrgos and Gournia Roundels Inscribed in Linear A: Suffixes, Prefixes, and a Journey to Syme,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 67-70.


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