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Cypro-Minoan and its writers : at home and overseas /

Poised as middlemen between the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, writers of Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered Late Bronze Age script of Cyprus, borrowed and transformed writing practices from their neighbors and invented new ones. Bits and pieces of the script are found throughout the Mediterranean, b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Donnelly, Cassandra M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:	Cambridge elements. Elements of writing in the ancient world.
Subjects:	Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan. Bronze age. Writing > Mediterranean Region. Commerce. Linguistics > History. Inscriptions chypro-minoennes.

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