Scripta Minoa The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos, Vol 1 The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and

Arthur J. Evans

ISBN 10: 1528076885 / ISBN 13: 9781528076883

Published by Forgotten Books, 2019

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• Title: Scripta Minoa The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos, Vol 1 The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528076885
• ISBN 13: 9781528076883
• Binding: HRD
• Condition: New
• Weight: 728 grams

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Synopsis

Excerpt from Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos, Vol. 1: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes; With an Account of the Discovery of the Pre-Phoenician Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and Their Mediterranean Relations

For these reasons the First Part of the present volume has been devoted to a summary view of all the successive types of Minoan script, including the primitive pictographic, the hieroglyphic, and the advanced linear classes. Their genesis is traced from a widespread European family of immemorial antiquity, and the place occupied by them among other early forms of writing traceable throughout the Mediterranean basin is as far as possible defined.

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Sir Arthur Evans was born in 1851 and educated at Harrow School, Brasenose College, Oxford and the University of Gottingen. He is most famous for his work on the palace of Knossos in Crete, which he identified as the centre of the thriving civilisation he dubbed 'Minoan', but he was also passionately interested in the history and archaeology of the Balkans and travelled extensively in the area as the regional correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in the 1880s. From 1884 to 1908 he was Curator of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and his numerous books include "The Palace of Minos, Scripta Minoa, The Adriatic Slavs and the Overland Route to Constantinople" and "Ancient Illyria" (I.B.Tauris).