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Lesson 10.14: The Hieroglyphic or Pictographic Script

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

W. C. Brice, “Nots on the Cretan Hieroglyphic Script VII,” Kadmos 36(1997) 93-96.

F. Chapouthier, Les écritures minoennes au palais de Mallia [Études Crétoises 2] (1930).

R. P.-J. E. Decorte, “Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’ and the Nature of the Script,” in P. M. Steele (ed.), Understanding Relations between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems (Oxford 2017) 33-56.

A. J. Evans, Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script; with an Account of a Sepulchral Deposit at Hagios Onoufrios near Phaestos in its Relation to Primitive Cretan and Aegean Culture (London 1895).

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

P. Faure, “Le premier sceau hiéroglyphique de la littérature crétoise NMA 8915,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 27-36.

S. Ferrara, “Desecrating Signs: ‘Hieroglyphic’ Writing Systems and Secondary Script Inventions,” in Y. Galanakis, T. Wilkinson, and J. Bennet (eds.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt (Oxford 2014) 73-79.

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

S. Ferrara, J. Weingarten, and G. Cadogan, “Cretan Hieroglyphic at Myrtos-Pyrgos,” SMEA NS 2(2016) 81-100.

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, “Écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise,” in J-C. Poursat, L. Godart, and J.-P. Olivier, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Le Quartier Mu I [Études Crétoises 23] (Paris 1978) 31-217.

E. Grumach and Y. Sakellarakis, “Die neuen Hieroglyphensiegel vom Phourni (Archanes) I,” Kadmos 5(1966) 109-114.

E. Hallager, E. Papadopoulou, and I Tzachili, “VRYS(4/4) 01 – the First Hieroglyphic Inscription from Western Crete,” Kadmos 50(2011) 63-74.

E. Hallager and M. Tsipopoulou, The Hieroglyphic Archive at Petras, Siteia [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 9] (Aarhus 2009).

A. Karetsou and A. M. Jasink, “A Hieroglyphic Seal from the Iuktas Peak Sanctuary,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 94-99.

A. Karnava, The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script of the Second Millennium BC: Description, Analysis, Function and Decipherment Perspectives (PhD dissertation, Université libre de Bruxelles 2000).

A. Karnava, “Archeia sphragidon kai archeia ieroglyphikon keimenon sten epoche ton proton anaktoron sten Krete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 25-36.

A. Karnava, “The Tel Haror Inscription and Crete: A Further Link,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 837-843.

A. Karnava, “Tradition and Innovation: The Scripts in the Old Palatial Period,” BICS 50(2007) 199-200.

O. Krzyszkowska, “Why Were Cats Different? Script and Imagery in Middle Minoan II Glyptic,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 100-106.

A. Lembessi, P. Muhly, and J.-P. Olivier, “An Inscription in the Hieroglyphic Script from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete (Sy Hf 01),” Kadmos 34(1995) 63-77.

P. Meriggi, “Sul geroglifico cretese,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 171-181.

S. Müller and J.-P. Olivier, “Prospection à Malia: Deux documents hiéroglyphiques,” BCH 115(1991) 65-70.

J.-P. Olivier, “The Possible Methods in Deciphering the Pictographic Cretan Script,” in T. G. Palaima, Y. Duhoux, and J. Bennet (eds.), Problems in Decipherment (Louvain 1989) 39-58.

J.-P. Olivier, “The Relationship between Inscriptions on Hieroglyphic Seals and Those Written on Archival Documents,” in T. G. Palaima (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration [Aegaeum 5] (Liège 1990) 11-19.

J.-P. Olivier, “Les sceaux avec des signes hiéroglyphiques. Que lire? Une question de bon sense,” in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux Minoens et Mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 169-181.

J.-P. Olivier, “Un simili-raccord dans les barres en hiéroglyphique de Knossos,” Minos 29-30(1994-95) 257-269.

J.-P. Olivier, “The Cretan 'Hieroglyphic' Script: A Full Script. Roots, Uses and Destiny,” BICS 42(1997-98) 242-243.

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 and L. Godart, Corpus hieroglyphicarum inscriptionum Cretae [Études Crétoises 31] (Paris 1996).

G. Owens, “A Possible 'Cretan Hieroglyphic' Inscription from Mount Ida (Ida Ya 332),” Kadmos 36(1997) 171.

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.

I. Schoep, A New Cretan Hieroglyphic Inscription from Malia (MA/V Yb 03),” Kadmos 34(1995) 78-80.

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

I. Schoep, “Some Notes on the ‘Hieroglyphic’ Deposit from Knossos,” SMEA 43(2001) 143-158.

I. Schoep, “Les tablettes en lineaire A et l’identification des espaces civils et religieux dans la Crète néopalatiale (MR I, ca. 1650-1470 av. J.-C.),” in I. Boehm and S. Müller-Celka (eds.), Espace civil, espace religieux en Égée durant la période mycénienne (Lyon 2010) 135-144.

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

M. Tsipopoulou and E. Hallager, A New Hieroglyphic Archive from Petras, Siteia,” Kadmos 35(1996) 164-

167.

M. Tsipopoulou and E. Hallager, The Hieroglyphic Archive at Petras, Siteia [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 9] (Athens 2010).

W. van Binsbergen, “Alternative Models of Intercontinental Interaction towards the Earliest Cretan Script,” Talanta 28-29(1996-97) 131-148.

J. Weingarten, “Cretan Hieroglyphic at Myrtos-Pyrgos,” SMEA NS 2(2016) 81-99.

F. C. Woodhuizen, “The Bee-Sign (Evans No. 86): An Instance of Egyptian Influence on Cretan Hieroglyphic,” Kadmos 36(1997) 97-110.

J. G. Younger, “New Observations on Hieroglyphic Seals,” SMEA 28(1990) 85-92.

J. G. Younger, “The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script: A Review Article,” Minos 31-32[1996-97] (1999) 379-400.

J. G. Younger, “Cretan Hieroglyphic Transaction Terms: ‘Total Paid’ and ‘Total Owed’,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 301-316.

J. G. Younger, “Food Rations and Portions in Cretan Hieroglyphic Documents,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 361-365.


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