Cretan Hieroglyphic

MATILDE CIVITILLO is Associate Professor of Philology and Civilizations of the Aegean and Pre-Classical Mediterranean at the Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'. Her research has mainly been focused on the analysis of the three main corpora of Aegean texts, namely the written documentation in Cretan Hieroglyphic, in Linear A and in Linear B, on which she has published La scrittura geroglifica minoica sui sigilli. Il messaggio della glittica protopalaziale (2016) and a number of journal articles. SILVIA FERRARA is Professor of Philology and Civilizations of the Aegean and Pre-Classical Mediterranean at the Università degli Studi di Bologna. An expert on both ancient undeciphered scripts and the invention of writing, she is the author and editor of numerous books, including Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions (2012) and The Greatest Invention (2019). In 2017 she was awarded an ERC grant for the project INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings). TORSTEN MEISSNER is a Professor of Classical and Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Pembroke College. His research mainly focuses on the early Celtic and Germanic languages, the history of Greek from the Bronze Age to the present day and the writing systems of the Bronze Age Aegean, on which he has published numerous articles and books, including S-stem Nouns and Adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European (2006) and Personal Names in the Western Roman World (ed. 2011). He is also the head of the Mycenaean Epigraphy Group in Cambridge and an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

• Preface: The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script and Problems of Decipherment Louis Godart; Introduction Matilde Civitillo, Silvia Ferrara and Torsten Meissner; 1. Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Silvia Ferrara; 2. Origins and Interface with Iconography Miguel Valério; 3. Cretan Hieroglyphic Writing as a System of Visual Encoding: Iconicity and Graphic Communication Georgia Flouda; 4. Macro View: Uses, Social Practices, and Ideological Implications of Hieroglyphic Texts Anna Margherita Jasink and Judith Weingarten; 5. Forms, Materials and Sequence Matilde Civitillo; 6. Scribal Practices, Syntax, and Morphology Philippa M. Steele; 7. The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and the other Cretan Scripts Torsten Meissner and Ester Salgarella; 8. Investigations into the Language(s) behind Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A Brent Davis; 9. The Future of Cretan Hieroglyphs: Outlooks and Trajectories John Bennet And Vassilis Petrakis; Epilogue John G. Younger; Appendix; Indexes; Concordances; Bibliography.