In the land of Lilliput: writing in the Bronze Age Aegean

References

• Anastasiadou, M. 2011. The Middle Minoan Three-Sided Soft Stone Prism. A Study of Style and Iconography, CMS Beiheft 9. Darmstadt/Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
   Google Scholar
• Anastasiadou, M., and M. Pomadère. 2011. “Le sceau à «la figure féminine aux bras levés» du secteur Pi de Malia.” BCH 135: 63–71.
   Google Scholar
• Branigan, K. 1993. Dancing with Death. Life and Death in Southern Crete C. 3000-2000 BC. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert.
   Google Scholar
• Detournay, B., J.-C. Poursat, and F. Vandenabeele. 1980. Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Le Quartier Mu. II. Vases de pierre et de métal, vannerie, figurines et reliefs d’applique, éléments de parure et de décoration, armes, sceaux et empreintes, Études Crétoises 26. Paris: De Boccard.
   Google Scholar
• Ekroth, G. 2003. “Small Pots, Poor People? The Use and Function of Miniature Pottery as Votive Offerings in Archaic Sanctuaries in the Argolid and the Corinthia.” In Griechische Keramik im kulturellen Kontext. Akten des internationalen Vasen-Symposions in Kiel vom 24.-28.9.2001, veranstaltet durch das Archäologische Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, edited by B. Schmaltz and M. Söldner, 35–38. Münster: Scriptorium.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, A. J. 1894. “Primitive Pictographs and a Prae-Phoenician Script from Crete and the Peloponnese.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 14: 270–372, pl. xii. doi:10.2307/623973.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, A. J. 1897. “Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script: With Libyan and Proto-Egyptian Comparisons.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 17: 327–95, pl. ix–x. doi:10.2307/623835.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, A. J. 1903. “Prae-Phoenician Writing in Crete, and Its Bearings on the History of the Alphabet.” Man 3: 50–5.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, A. J. 1909. Scripta Minoa. The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. I. the Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes, with an Account of the Discovery of the Pre-Phoenician Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and Their Mediterranean Relations. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, A. J. 1921. The palace of Minos at Knossos. Vol. I. The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. London: Macmillan and Co.
   Google Scholar
• Girella, L. 2002. “Vasi rituali con elementi miniaturizzati a Creta, in Egeo e nel Mediterraneo Orientale alla fine dell’Età del Bronzo. Indicatori archeologici ed etnici.” Creta Antica 3: 167–216.
   Google Scholar
• Godart, L. 1999. “L’écriture d’Arkhanès: hiéroglyphique ou linéaire A?” In Meletemata. Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year, I-III, Aegaeum 20, edited by P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier, 299–302. Liège & Austin: Université de Liège.
   Google Scholar
• Godart, L., and J.-P. Olivier. 1975–1985. Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, I-V, Études Crétoises 21. Paris: de Boccard.
   Google Scholar
• Harlan, D. 2011. “The Cult of the Dead, Fetishism, and the Genesis of an Idea: Megalithic Monuments and the Tree and Pillar Cult of Arthur J. Evans.” European Journal of Archaeology 14: 210–30. doi:10.1179/146195711798369391.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Houghton, W. 1878. “On the Hieroglyphic or Picture Origin of the Characters of the Assyrian Syllabary.” Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 6: 454–83.
   Google Scholar
• Karnava, A. 1997. “Old-Palatial Technology in Crete, as Seen through the Evidence of Cretan Hieroglyphic Script Texts.” In Proceedings of the First International Colloquium of Ancient Greek Technology, 673–83. Thessaloniki: Cultural and Technological Foundation of the Hellenic Bank of Industrial Development.
   Google Scholar
• Karnava, A. 2000. “The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script of the Second Millennium before our Times: Description, Analysis, Functions, and Decipherment Perspectives.” Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Brussels: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
   Google Scholar
• Karnava, A. Forthcoming. “‘Picture-Writing’ and Phoneticism after Scripta Minoa I.” In Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean, Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, Round Table, January 16–18, 2009, edited by J. Bennet. Sheffield: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology.
   Google Scholar
• Kiernan, P. 2009. Miniature Votive Offerings in the North-West Provinces of the Roman Empire. Mentor Bd. 4. Mainz/Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen.
   Google Scholar
• Knappett, C. 2008a. “The Material Culture of Protopalatial Crete.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by C. Shelmerdine, 121–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Knappett, C. 2008b. “The Neglected Networks of Material Agency: Artefacts, Pictures and Texts.” In Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, edited by C. Knappett and L. Malafouris, 139–56. New York: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Knappett, C. 2012. “Meaning in Miniature: Semiotic Networks in Material Culture.” In Excavating the Mind, edited by M. Jessen, N. Johansen, and H. Jensen, 87–109. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Krzyszkowska, O. 2012. “Seals from the Petras Cemetery: A Preliminary Overview.” In Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16, edited by M. Tsipopoulou, 145–60. Athens: Danish Institute at Athens.
   Google Scholar
• Macgillivray, A. J. 2000. Minotaur. Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth. London: Jonathan Cape.
   Google Scholar
• Mack, J. 2007. The Art of Small Things. London: The British Museum Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mishra, A. K., Y. Aloimonos, L.-F. Cheong, and A. A. Kassim. 2012. “Active Visual Segmentation.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 34 (4): 639–53. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2011.171.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Myres, J. L. 1902/1903. “Excavations at Palaikastro. II. §13. The sactuary-site of Petsofa.” ABSA 9: 356–87, pl. VII–XIII.
   Google Scholar
• Olivier, J.-P. 1981. “Les sceaux avec des signes hiéroglyphiques. Que lire ? Une question de definition.” In Studien zur minoischen und helladischen Glyptik. Beiträge zum 2. Marburger Siegel-Symposium, September 26-30, 1978, CMS Beiheft 1, edited by W.-D. Niemeier, 105–15. Berlin: Gebr. Mann.
   Google Scholar
• Olivier, J.-P. 1990. “The Relationship between Inscriptions on Hieroglyphic Seals and Those Written on Archival Documents.” In Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration. Proceedings of the NEH-Dickson Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory of the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin, Aegaeum 5, January 11-13, 1989, edited by T. G. Palaima, 11–24. Liège: Université de Liège.
   Google Scholar
• Olivier, J.-P. 1995. “Les sceaux avec des signes hiéroglyphiques. Que lire ? Une question de bon sens.” In Sceaux minoens et mycéniens. IVe Symposium international, Clermont-Ferrand, Septembre 10-12, 1992, CMS Beiheft 5, edited by W. Müller, 69–181. Berlin: Gebr. Mann.
   Google Scholar
• Olivier, J.-P. 1996. “Les écritures crétoises : sept points à considerer.” In Atti e memorie del IIo Congresso Internazionale di Micenologia, Roma-Napoli, Ottobre 14-20, 1991, edited by E. D. Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi, 101–13. I Rome: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale.
   Google Scholar
• Olivier, J.-P., and L. Godart. 1996. Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (avec la collaboration de J.-Cl. Poursat), Étude Crétoises 31. CHIC 1996. Paris: De Boccard.
   Google Scholar
• Platon, N. 1951. “To ieron Maza (Kalou Choriou Pediados) kai ta minwika iera koryfis” [The Maza sanctuary in Kalo Chorio Pediados and Minoan peak sanctuaries]. Cretica Chronika 5: 96–160.
   Google Scholar
• Platon, N. 1966. “Anaskafai Zakrou” [Zakros Excavations]. Praktika 1963 (160–188): pl. 142–54.
   Google Scholar
• Poursat, J.-C. 2009. “Cult Activity at Malia in the Protopalatial Period.” In Archaeologies of Cult: Essays in Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell, Hesperia Supplement 42, edited by A.-L. D’Agata and A. Van De Moortel, 71–8. Princeton, NJ: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
   Google Scholar
• Poursat, J.-C., and C. Knappett. 2005. Fouilles exécutées à Malia. Le Quartier Mu. IV. La poterie du Minoen Moyen II: production et utilization, Études Crétoises 33. Paris: De Boccard.
   Google Scholar
• Ratnapalan, L. 2008. “E.B. Tylor and the Problem of Primitive Culture.” History and Anthropology 19: 131–42. doi:10.1080/02757200802320934.
   Google Scholar
• Rutkowski, B. 1986. The Cult Places of the Aegean. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Seager, R. B. 1912. Explorations in the Island of Mochlos. Boston, MA: American School of Classical Studies.
   Google Scholar
• Simandiraki-Grimshaw, A. 2012. “Miniature Vessels from Petras.” In Petras, Siteia – 25 years of excavations and studies. Acts of a two-day conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, October 9-10, 2010, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16, edited by M. Tsipopoulou, 255–64. Athens: The Danish Institute at Athens.
   Google Scholar
• Tournavitou, I. 2009. “Does Size Matter? Miniature Pottery Vessels in Minoan Peak Sanctuaries.” In Archaeologies of Cult: Essays in Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell, Hesperia Supplement 42, edited by A.-L. D’Agata and A. van de Moortel, 213–30. Princeton, NJ: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
   Google Scholar
• Tylor, E. B. 1865. Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization. London: John Murray.
   Google Scholar
• Tylor, E. B. 1871. Primitive Culture. Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom. London: John Murray.
   Google Scholar
• Ventris, M., and J. Chadwick. 1973. Documents in Mycenaean Greek. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Walberg, G. 1986. Tradition and Innovation: Essays in Minoan Art. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
   Google Scholar
• Weingarten, J. 2013. “The Arrival of Egyptian Taweret and Bes[et] on Minoan Crete: Contact and Choice.” In SOMA 2012. Identity and connectivity. Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Florence, Italy, March 1–3, 2012, BAR International Series 2581, edited by L. Bombardieri, A. D’Agostino, G. Guarducci, V. Orsi, and S. Valentini, 371–78. Oxford: Archaeopress.
   Google Scholar
• Willi, A. 2008. “Cows, Houses, Hooks: The Graeco-Semitic Letter Names as a Chapter in the History of the Alphabet.” The Classical Quarterly 58: 401–23. doi:10.1017/S0009838808000517.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar