A Companion to Linear B - The University of Texas at Austin

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CONTENTS Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII Chapter 11. Y. DUHOUX, Interpreting the Linear B records: some guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 12. T.G. PALAIMA, Scribes, scribal hands and palaeography . . 33 Chapter 13. J. BENNET, The geography of the Mycenaean kingdoms . . . 137 Chapter 14. S. HILLER, Mycenaean religion and cult . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Chapter 15. J.L. GARCÍA RAMÓN, Mycenaean onomastics . . . . . . . . 213 Chapter 16. † C.J. RUIJGH, Mycenaean and Homeric language . . . . . . 253 Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 1. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 2. Index of Linear B Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 3. Index of Linear B Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 4. Index of Linear B Undeciphered Syllabograms . . . . . . . . . . 329 5. Index of Linear B Abbreviations/Ideograms . . . . . . . . . . . 329 6. Index of Alphabetic Greek Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
SUMMARY CHAPTER 12 SCRIBES, SCRIBAL HANDS AND PALAEOGRAPHY * THOMAS G. PALAIMA University of Texas at Austin §12.1. Mycenaean scribes and their work: how and why the study of handwriting became a key tool of research in Mycenaean studies ......................... 34 §12.1.1. Palaeographical studies before the decipherment ....................... 35 §12.1.1.1. Sir Arthur Evans ............................................................. 38 §12.1.1.2. Alice E. Kober and Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ................... 44 §12.1.1.3. The roots of Mycenaean palaeography ........................... 46 §12.1.1.4. The major tasks of Mycenaean palaeography ................ 49 §12.1.1.5. Bennett’s results .............................................................. 55 §12.1.2. Palaeographical studies after the decipherment: Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. and others ........................................................................ 56 §12.1.2.1. Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. and the scribes of Pylos and other sites .................................................................................. 56 §12.1.2.1.1. The problem of the series PY Aa, Ab and Ad .. 57 §12.1.2.1.2. The language situation in Mycenaean Pylos ...... 60 §12.1.2.1.3. The link between hands and find-spots .............. 60 §12.1.2.1.4. The way in which the scribes monitored the Pylian economy .................................................. 63 §12.1.2.1.5. The internal chronology of the tablets: the example of tablet PY Tn 316 and the PY Ta tablets ....... 64 §12.1.2.1.6. Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. and the palaeography of Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae ............................. 72 §12.1.2.2. Jean-Pierre Olivier .......................................................... 76 §12.1.2.3. Thomas G. Palaima ......................................................... 77 §12.1.2.4. Finger- and palm-prints on the tablets ............................ 83 * The editors received the first version of this chapter in March, 2007. The author wishes to thank Yves Duhoux, Dygo Tosa, Andrew Zawislanski and Kevin Pluta for their advice and assistance, and both editors for their patience and encouragement. He dedicates this chapter to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., his mentor and friend, and the truest gentleman he has met in his own now long life. Photographs of Linear B tablets from Pylos are taken from the archives of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory at the University of Texas at Austin, courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. Kevin Pluta helped a lot with the annotation of illustrations.
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