The Undeciphered Aegean Scripts

BRENT DAVIS is Associate Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. He has completed degrees in both linguistics and archaeology and has undertaken more than a dozen years of archaeological fieldwork in Israel. He was the 2019 recipient of University College London's prestigious Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies; Part II of this book is the direct result of the research he carried out under that award.

• Introduction; 1. Overview of the Aegean scripts; Part I. Linguistic Analysis of Linear A: 2. Evidence relevant to the character of the language that Linear A encodes; 3. Linear A phonology; 4. Linear A morphology; 5. Linear A syntax and orthography; Part II. Syllabotactic Analyses of The Aegean Scripts: 6. Syllabotactic analysis: a new methodology for investigating the languages behind the undeciphered Aegean scripts; 7. Syllabotactic analysis of Linear A; 8. Syllabotactic analysis of the Phaistos disk script against Linear A; 9. Syllabotactic analysis of Cretan Hieroglyphic against Linear A; 10. Syllabotactic analysis of Cypro-Minoan; 11. Syllabotactic analysis of Eteocypriot and Linear A against Cypro-Minoan; Epilogue.