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Linear A, the Glossary

Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC.^[1]

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15th-century BC disestablishments
18th-century BC establishments
2nd-millennium BC introductions
Aegean languages in the Bronze Age
Bronze Age writing systems
Eteocretan language
Syllabary writing systems
Undeciphered writing systems

Aegean Islands

The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.

See Linear A and Aegean Islands

Aegean numerals

Aegean numbers was an additive sign-value numeral system used by the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. Linear A and Aegean numerals are Aegean languages in the Bronze Age.

See Linear A and Aegean numerals

Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.

See Linear A and Agglutinative language

American Journal of Archaeology

The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts founded by the institute in 1885).

See Linear A and American Journal of Archaeology

Anatolian languages

The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey.

See Linear A and Anatolian languages

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

See Linear A and Ancient Greek

Archanes

Archanes (Αρχάνες, Godart & Olivier abbreviation: ARKH) is a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece.

See Linear A and Archanes

Arkalochori Axe

The Arkalochori Axe is a 2nd millennium BC Minoan bronze votive double axe (labrys) excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in 1934 in the Arkalochori cave in Crete, which is believed to have been used for religious rituals.

See Linear A and Arkalochori Axe

Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.

See Linear A and Arthur Evans

Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.

See Linear A and Boustrophedon

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

See Linear A and Cambridge University Press

Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs are Eteocretan language and undeciphered writing systems.

See Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs

Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

See Linear A and Crete

Cyclades

The Cyclades (Kykládes) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

See Linear A and Cyclades

Cyperus

Cyperus is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions.

See Linear A and Cyperus

Cypriot syllabary

The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. Linear A and Cypriot syllabary are Obsolete writing systems and syllabary writing systems.

See Linear A and Cypriot syllabary

Cypro-Minoan syllabary

The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). Linear A and Cypro-Minoan syllabary are Aegean languages in the Bronze Age, bronze Age writing systems, Obsolete writing systems, syllabary writing systems and undeciphered writing systems.

See Linear A and Cypro-Minoan syllabary

Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

See Linear A and Cyprus

Dispilio Tablet

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings, unearthed during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of Dispilio in Greece, and carbon 14-dated to 5202 (± 123) BC.

See Linear A and Dispilio Tablet

Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

See Linear A and Duke University Press

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Linear A and Egyptian hieroglyphs are bronze Age writing systems and Obsolete writing systems.

See Linear A and Egyptian hieroglyphs

Emmett L. Bennett Jr.

Emmett Leslie Bennett Jr. (July 18, 1918 – December 15, 2011) was an American classicist and philologist whose systematic catalog of its symbols led to the solution of reading Linear B, a 3,300-year-old syllabary used for writing Mycenaean Greek hundreds of years before the Greek alphabet was developed.

See Linear A and Emmett L. Bennett Jr.

Geography of Greece

Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.

See Linear A and Geography of Greece

Gournia

Gournia (Γουρνιά) is the site of a Minoan palace complex in the Lasithi regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.

See Linear A and Gournia

Graffito (archaeology)

A graffito (plural "graffiti"), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall.

See Linear A and Graffito (archaeology)

Hagia Triada

Hagia Triada (also Haghia Triada, Hagia Triadha, Ayia Triada, Agia Triada), is a Minoan archaeological site in Crete.

See Linear A and Hagia Triada

Hapax legomenon

In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (also or; hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural hapaxes) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text.

See Linear A and Hapax legomenon

Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.

See Linear A and Ideogram

Journal of Indo-European Studies

The Journal of Indo-European Studies (JIES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Indo-European studies.

See Linear A and Journal of Indo-European Studies

Kato Symi

Kato Symi (Κάτω Σύμη) is a small historic village of Crete, in Heraklion regional unit, from Ierapetra and from Heraklion city.

See Linear A and Kato Symi

Kea (island)

Kea (Κέα), also known as Tzia (Τζιά) and in antiquity Keos (Κέως, Ceos), is a Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea.

See Linear A and Kea (island)

Knossos

Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.

See Linear A and Knossos

Kydonia

Kydonia, also known as Cydonia (Κυδωνία, Kydōnía) was an ancient city located at the site of present-day Chania on the island of Crete in Greece.

See Linear A and Kydonia

Kythira

Kythira (Κύθηρα), also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira, is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula.

See Linear A and Kythira

Laconia

Laconia or Lakonia (Λακωνία) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

See Linear A and Laconia

Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other.

See Linear A and Language contact

Ligature (writing)

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.

See Linear A and Ligature (writing)

Linear A (Unicode block)

Linear A is a Unicode block containing the characters of the ancient, undeciphered Linear A.

See Linear A and Linear A (Unicode block)

Linear B

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. Linear A and Linear B are 2nd-millennium BC introductions, Aegean languages in the Bronze Age, bronze Age writing systems, Obsolete writing systems and syllabary writing systems.

See Linear A and Linear B

Logogram

In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.

See Linear A and Logogram

Luwian language

Luwian, sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family.

See Linear A and Luwian language

Lycian language

The Lycian language (𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊍𐊆)Bryce (1986) page 30.

See Linear A and Lycian language

Malia (archaeological site)

Malia (also Mallia) is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site on the northern coast of Crete in the Heraklion regional unit.

See Linear A and Malia (archaeological site)

Mason's mark

A mason's mark is an engraved symbol often found on dressed stone in buildings and other public structures.

See Linear A and Mason's mark

Miletus

Miletus (Mī́lētos; 𒈪𒅋𒆷𒉿𒀭𒁕 Mīllawānda or 𒈪𒆷𒉿𒋫 Milawata (exonyms); Mīlētus; Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Ionia.

See Linear A and Miletus

Milos

Milos or Melos (Mílos,; Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete.

See Linear A and Milos

Minoan chronology

Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization.

See Linear A and Minoan chronology

Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

See Linear A and Minoan civilization

Minoan language

The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary.

See Linear A and Minoan language

Minoan palaces

Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age.

See Linear A and Minoan palaces

Mount Juktas

A mountain in north-central Crete, Mount Juktas (Γιούχτας - Giouchtas), also spelled Iuktas, Iouktas, or Ioukhtas, was an important religious site for the Minoan civilization.

See Linear A and Mount Juktas

Multilingual inscription

In epigraphy, a multilingual inscription is an inscription that includes the same text in two or more languages.

See Linear A and Multilingual inscription

Mycenae

Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.

See Linear A and Mycenae

Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

See Linear A and Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greek

Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the terminus ad quem for the introduction of the Greek language to Greece.

See Linear A and Mycenaean Greek

Myrtos Pyrgos

Pyrgos (also Myrtos-Pyrgos; Πύργος) is an archaeological site of the Minoan civilization near Myrtos in the municipality of Ierapetra on the south coast of Crete.

See Linear A and Myrtos Pyrgos

Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

See Linear A and Oil

Olive

The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.

See Linear A and Olive

Ostracon

An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.

See Linear A and Ostracon

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

See Linear A and Oxford University Press

Petras

Petras (Πετράς) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan town on northeastern Crete.

See Linear A and Petras

Petsofas

Petsofas is the archaeological site of a Minoan peak sanctuary in eastern Crete.

See Linear A and Petsofas

Phaistos

Phaistos (Φαιστός,; Ancient Greek: Φαιστός,, Linear B: 𐀞𐀂𐀵 Pa-i-to; Linear A: 𐘂𐘚𐘄 Pa-i-to), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete.

See Linear A and Phaistos

Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC), bearing a text in an unknown script and language.

See Linear A and Phaistos Disc

Phoenician language

Phoenician (Phoenician) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.

See Linear A and Phoenician language

Prassa

Prassa (also Prassas) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on Crete.

See Linear A and Prassa

Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

See Linear A and Prefix

Pylos

Pylos (Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.

See Linear A and Pylos

Roman numerals

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

See Linear A and Roman numerals

Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

See Linear A and Rosetta Stone

Samothrace

Samothrace (also known as Samothraki; Σαμοθράκη) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.

See Linear A and Samothrace

Sample size determination

Sample size determination or estimation is the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to include in a statistical sample.

See Linear A and Sample size determination

Santorini

Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.

See Linear A and Santorini

Semitic languages

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

See Linear A and Semitic languages

Stamp seal

The stamp seal (also impression seal) is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC (Halaf culture) and probably earlier.

See Linear A and Stamp seal

Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

See Linear A and Suffix

Syllabary

In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. Linear A and syllabary are syllabary writing systems.

See Linear A and Syllabary

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

See Linear A and Syllable

Tel Haror

Tel Haror (Hebrew name) or Tell Abu Hureyra (Arabic name; also spelled Hureira and Hareira), also known as Tel Heror, is an archaeological site in the western Negev Desert, Israel, northwest of Beersheba, about 20 km east of the Mediterranean Sea, situated on the north bank of Wadi Gerar, a wadi known in Arabic as Wadi esh-Sheri'a.

See Linear A and Tel Haror

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

Also known as ISO 15924:Lina, Linear A (script), Linear A Script, Linear A alphabet, Linear A characters, Linear A ideograms, Linear A ideographs, Linear A syllabary, Minoan Linear A.

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Linear A, the Glossary

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See also

15th-century BC disestablishments

18th-century BC establishments

2nd-millennium BC introductions

Aegean languages in the Bronze Age

Bronze Age writing systems

Eteocretan language

Syllabary writing systems

Undeciphered writing systems

References