Digital Resources for Aegean languages
Objectives: Make digital texts available to: researchers non-specialists broader audience Keep editions updated Analysis tools: deciphering, linguistic analysis: Mycenaean case system
Aegean Scripts: Cretan Hieroglyphic Linear A Linear B Cypro-Minoan Cypro-syllabic Phaistós Disc Arkalokhori Axe
Chronology (BCE) Documents (ca.) Scripts Languages 2000/1650 1850-1350 early 17 th 1600 1600-950 1450-1150 900-200 700-300 650-200 350 1500 1 1 220 5900 1380 20 (600 signs) 6 (422 letters) Cretan Hieroglyphic Linear A Phaistós Disc Arkalokhori Axe Cypro-Minoan Linear B Cypro-syllabic Cypro-syllabic --------- Greek alphabet????? more than one? Greek (Mycenaean) Greek (Cypriot) Eteocypriot Eteocretan (= CH?)
Cretan Hieroglyphic
Linear A
LINEAR B
Cypro-Minoan scripts
Cyprosyllabic
Phaistós Disc
Arkalokhori Axe
The other Cretan scripts 1 Scripta Minoa I: https://archive.org/details/scriptaminoawrit01evanuoft John Younger s (Kansas Univeristy) webpages: http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/ Cypro-Minoan: http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/hiero/ Linear A: http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/lineara/ Pahistós Disc & Arkalokhori Axe: http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/phdisc/
The other Cretan scripts 2 Online PDFs of the standard editions (L. Godart, J.-P. Olivier): Cretan Hieroglyphic: http://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionid=page&serie_id=etcr et&volume_number=31&page_number=3 Linear A: http://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?nocache=2232oxwta3md&site_id=1&act ionid=page&prevpos=0&serie_id=etcret&volume_number=21&issue_n umber=1&cefael=8e74ecb5234b3e3c1cdfc09942a7085a&sp=5 Phaistós Disc: http://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionid=page&serie_id=bch &volume_number=99&issue_number=1&page_number=5&page_type=1
Cypriot scripts Kyprios Character: http://kyprioscharacter.eie.gr/en/cypruscoins/ Inscriptiones Graecae (forthcoming) The Cypriot Inscriptions Database at PASP (metadata, no texts): http://paspserver.class.utexas.edu/cyprus/
Bibliographies & mailing list Studies in Myxcenaean Inscriptions and Dialects at PASP: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/16096 Nestor: http://classics.uc.edu/nestor/ Aegeanet: http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/aegeanet/
Overviews & portals with links to digital resources and fonts MNAMON: http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=home&lang=en Cambridge Mycenaean Epigraphy Group: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/projects/mycep/links Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory: http://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/ Aegeus: https://www.aegeussociety.org/en/
Scholars and decipherers archives Arthur Evans Archives (Ashmolean Museum): http://sirarthurevans.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/archive/ Alice Kober and Michael Ventris Archive: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15875 Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Archive: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/32270 Ventris Papers (Institute of Classical Studies): http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/330/
LINEAR B
LINEAR B ca. 1450 1150 5864 document, 34983 words, 64739 signs + 5299 word dividers (publihed documents, DAMOS figures) syllabary (CV, V), 87 signs + logograms, numerals and fractions administrative documents Crete and mainland Grece deciphered in 1952 Mycenaean Greek
Tablets Jars Tablets & Jars
AB01 da AB02 ro AB03 pa AB04 te AB05 to AB06 na AB07 di AB08 a AB09 se AB10 u AB11 po B12 so AB13 me B14 do B15 mo AB16 qa AB17 za B18 B19 AB20 zo AB21 qi AB22 AB23 mu AB24 ne B25 a2 AB26 ru AB27 re AB28 i AB29 pu2 AB30 ni AB31 sa B32 qo B33 ra3 AB34 B36 jo AB37 ti AB38 e AB39 pi AB40 wi AB41 si B42 wo B43 a3 AB44 ke AB45 de AB46 je AB47 AB48 nwa AB49 AB50 pu AB51 du B52 no AB53 ri AB54 wa AB55 nu AB56 AB57 ja AB58 su AB59 ta AB60 ra AB61 o B62 pte B63 B64 AB65 AB66 ta2 AB67 ki B68 ro2 AB69 tu AB70 ko B71 dwe B72 pe AB73 mi AB74 ze B75 we AB76 ra2 AB77 ka AB78 qe AB79 AB80 ma AB81 ku AB82 B83 B85 au AB86 AB87 twe B90 dwo B91 two
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.1 e-re-ta, pe-re-u-ro-na-de, i-jo-te.2 ro-o-wa VIR 8.3 ri-jo VIR 5.4 po-ra-pi VIR 4.5 te-ta-ra-ne VIR 6.6 a-po-ne-we VIR 7.7 vac..8 vac.
.1 eretai Pleurōnade iontes.2 ro-o-wā VIR 8.3 Riō VIR 5.4 po-ra-phi VIR 4.5 te-ta-ra-nē VIR 6.6 a-po-ne-wē VIR 7.7 vac..8 vac.
.1 rowers going to Pleurōn.2 from ro-o-wa MEN 8.3 from Riō MEN 5.4 from po-ra MEN 4.5 from te-ta-ran MEN 6.6 from a-po-neu MEN 7.7 vac..8 vac.
Digital and online resources for Mycenaean: Text databases & linguistic and named entities annotation Deaditerranean: http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/linear-btransliterations/ LiBER: http://liber.isma.cnr.it/cgi-bin/home.cgi DAMOS: https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/ DAMOS s linguistic and named entities annotation in progress, not yet online.
Digital and online resources for Mycenaean: Images & maps 1: LiBER: http://liber.isma.cnr.it/cgi-bin/home.cgi CaLiBRA: http://calibra.classics.cam.ac.uk/ Arachne: https://arachne.dainst.org/ Scripta minoa II: https://archive.org/details/scriptaminoawrit02evanuoft
Digital and online resources for Mycenaean: Images & maps 2: Ashmolean Museum: http://sirarthurevans.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collection/linearb/ima ges.php Pylos Tablets Digital Project: https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/lin ear-b-in-3d/ RTI-viewer: http://culturalheritageimaging.org/what_we_offer/download s/view/
Digital and online resources for Mycenaean.:Dictionaries: Diccionario Micénico s indexes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/portal/diccionariomicenic o/ Deaditerranean: http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/linear-btransliterations/ Palaeolexicon: http://www.palaeolexicon.com/languages/index Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/category:mycenaean_greek_lang uage
Building the database with DMLF-gruppa at UiO: - Scanning: from paper editions to a Word file - Updating of the texts: new editions, readings, joins and findings - Import in a SQL-database (PHP-import program): making the document machine readable (= unanmbiguous) teaching the computer to read the Wingspread convention
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