Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume 2: The Corpus - Rilegato

Ferrara, Silvia

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 019969382X ISBN 13: 9780199693825

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

This volume is the first comprehensive archaeological catalogue of all the extant inscriptions written in the un-deciphered syllabary of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500-1200 BC): the so-called Cypro-Minoan script. In conjunction with Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions Volume 1: Analysis, this volume focuses on the physical reality of the inscribed objects containing Cypro-Minoan and the archaeological contexts in which they were found. Offering a detailed, systematic, and rigorous examination of both the objects and their functions in the material record, it proposes a new way of examining the inscriptions. This comprehensive standpoint therefore considers not only the inscriptions themselves, but more importantly the contexts and functions of the inscribed objects, which are significant for the documentary evidence they bear and the part they play as physical entities manufactured, shaped, and used by past peoples for a defined purpose.

Organized in a catalogue format, each object is analysed, illustrated, and accompanied by a detailed commentary on the context of recovery and typological characteristics with full bibliographical references. While a standalone reference work, it aims to showcase the inscribed objects discussed in Volume 1: Analysis, fully illustrating them in a series of photographs, including 50 colour plates, and drawings.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Silvia Ferrara is a Research Fellow at the University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019969382X
• ISBN 13: 9780199693825
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 318
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile