Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script and Problems of Decipherment
- Introduction
- 1 Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- 2 Origins and Interface with Iconography
- 3 Cretan Hieroglyphic Writing as a System of Visual Encoding: Iconicity and Graphic Communication
- 4 Macro View: Uses, Social Practices and Ideological Implications of Cretan Hieroglyphic Texts
- 5 Forms, Materials and Sequences
- 6 Scribal Practices, Syntax and Morphology
- 7 The Relationship Between Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Other Cretan Scripts
- 8 Investigations into the Language(s) Behind Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A
- 9 The Future of Cretan Hieroglyphs: Outlooks and Trajectories
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Indexes
- Concordances
- Bibliography
- Analytical Index
List of Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script and Problems of Decipherment
- Introduction
- 1 Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- 2 Origins and Interface with Iconography
- 3 Cretan Hieroglyphic Writing as a System of Visual Encoding: Iconicity and Graphic Communication
- 4 Macro View: Uses, Social Practices and Ideological Implications of Cretan Hieroglyphic Texts
- 5 Forms, Materials and Sequences
- 6 Scribal Practices, Syntax and Morphology
- 7 The Relationship Between Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Other Cretan Scripts
- 8 Investigations into the Language(s) Behind Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A
- 9 The Future of Cretan Hieroglyphs: Outlooks and Trajectories
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Indexes
- Concordances
- Bibliography
- Analytical Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Cretan Hieroglyphic , pp. xvi - xviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024