Early Mediterranean Scripts - Conversations about Space and Time

255 s, renkli resimler, İngilizce.

Research Means Looking at Things from a New Perspective

• Speaking Luwian Today
• Scripts Are Related
• Science in Transition

How Does Decipherment Work?

• The Generalist’s Approach
• Combining an Internal and an External Approach
• Why Decipherings Are Needed
• Talking about Methods
• Schools of Thought
• Understanding Linear A
• The Notorious Phaistos Disc
• Arthur Evans Caused Some Harm

Waves of Indo-Europeanization across the Mediterranean

• All Emerged from the Steppe
• It All Began 5000 Years Ago
• Another Wave of Indo-European Speakers
• Of Indo-Aryans and Hyksos
• Minoan Crete Was Multiethnic
• Immigrants Tended to Be Hostile
• How the Languages Arrived

The Earliest Cretan Scripts

• How the Script Came to Crete
• Linearizing Hieroglyphs
• Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Phaistos Disc
• Looking across the Border
• Let Atlantis Rest

The Lasting Success of Luwian Hieroglyphic

• Two Forms of Luwian
• Step by Step towards a Decipherment
• Why Not Read Luwian?
• Some Signs Are Polyphonic
• No Sign for i Anymore
• Recent Finds – Questionable and Unquestionable Ones
• Yet More Inscriptions Appear

Byblos Needs Its Own Script

• The Byblos Script
• What the Documents Say
• The Road to Decipherment

A Cypriot Admiral Calls for Help

• Different Approaches
• All about Business
• Hittite Ambitions
• A Spectacular Discovery

Origin and Motives of the Sea Peoples

• How the Situation Evolved
• Famines in Anatolia
• Where Was Haunebut?
• Weshesh, Sherden, Shekelesh – and All the Rest of It
• What Fred Thinks Happened
• Some Discrepancies
• What Eberhard Thinks Happened

The Etruscans Came from Asia Minor

• Connections with Anatolian Languages
• The Pyrgi Tablets
• A Whole Book: The Liber Linteus
• The Enigmatic Lemnos Stele
• Where Do We Go from Here?
• Don’t Forget the Rhaetians!
• What Are the Consequences?

Other Luwian Dialects, Such as Lydian, Lycian and Carian

• Lycian Can Be Read and Understood
• Three Signs in Lydian Should Be Corrected
• Sidetic Contains Signs from Cypriot Script
• Carian Has Not Been Deciphered Correctly
• Southwest Iberian Is Celtic
• The Alphabet Becomes Semi-Syllabic
• They Spoke Celtic, What Else!
• The King Is Named after the Silver
• Phoenician Port Towns Were Not Harmed
• The Celts Enter Iberia
• Iberia as a Sideshow
• A Dedication to Reinforce a Bilateral Treaty

Etymology or No Etymology – That Is the Question

Appendix

• Endnotes
• Further Reading
• Picture Credits
• Index
• About the Authors