Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos: Volume 1, 1-1063

A. Sacconi,I. A. Sakellarakis,J. P. Olivier,J. T. Killen,John Chadwick,L. Godart

ISBN 10: 0521320224 / ISBN 13: 9780521320221

Published by Cambridge University Press, Princeton, 1987

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4to pp.433. Dustjacket has small chip at tail of front panel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos: Volume 1, 1-1063
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Princeton
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521320224
• ISBN 13: 9780521320221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History,Display

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Synopsis

The Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, to be completed in three or four volumes, constitutes the definitive publication by the world's major Mycenaean epigraphists of the Linear B tablets found by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete. It includes all the fragments discarded by Evans and subsequently recovered from the Museums storerooms and elsewhere and represents the result of 30 years' work on reconstituting the documents. Each tablet or fragment is given as a photograph, drawing, and in transcription. The notes are purely textual. Volume I contains tablets 1-1063.

Book Description

The definitive publication, by the world's major Mycenaean epigraphists, of the Linear B tablets found by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos. It includes all the fragments discarded by Evans and subsequently recovered from the museum storerooms and elsewhere. Each tablet or fragment is given as a photograph, a drawing and in transcription. The notes are purely textual.