Several Theban tombs of the fifteenth century BC show Minoans paying homage to the court of the Pharaoh. In two of them, these Minoans are said to be coming from the "islands in the middle of the Great Green Sea." It is generally considered that these "islands" are in the Aegean and that the "Great Green Sea" refers to the Mediterranean. This book re-examines this question. The careful examination of the Egyptian material shows that the "Great Green Sea" refers incontestably to the Mediterranean only in one late text (196 AD). Previously, the "Great Green Sea" always indicated the Nile, its valley and its Delta, or the Red Sea. However, the Egyptian texts explicitly locate the "islands in the middle of the Great Green Sea" in the heart of the Delta. Minoans were therefore probably living in Egypt. Is this conclusion compatible with Minoan and Egyptian archaeological or historical evidence? How can Minoan inhabitation of Egypt be explained? When did it occur? Why did it end? Because of Mycenaeans? These are some of the questions tackled in this work which throws new light on relations between the peoples of the archaic Aegean and Egypt. French text.

Des Minoens en Egypte? (Publications de L'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain) (French Edition)

History

Duhoux, Y

Ancient Civilizations

Peeters

<p>Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabic script which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC and precedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least four hundred years. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the Mycenaean Greeks and their time. But who wrote these documents? How can we read them, understand them and interpret them? What do they teach us about the history, economy, religion, society, geography, technology, language, etc. of the Mycenaean period? The Companion aims at answering these and other questions in a series of chapters written by a team of internationally recognized specialists in the subject, who not only summarize the results of current research but also try to explain the problems which arise from the study of the texts and the methods which can be used to solve them.</p>

A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, Volume 1 (Bibliotheque Des Cahiers de L'Institut de Linguistique de Lo)

Literature & Fiction

Davies, Anna Murpurgo

History & Criticism

Peeters Press

<p>Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabic script which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC and precedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least four hundred years. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the economy, administration, religion, institutions, etc. of the Mycenaean period. But who wrote these texts? What types of texts were they? How can we read them, understand them and interpret them? What do they teach us about the history, economy, religion, society, geography, technology, and language of the Mycenaean period? This Companion aims at answering these and other questions in a series of chapters written by internationally recognised specialists in the subject, who not only summarise the results of current research but also try to explain the problems which arise from the study of the texts and the methods which can be used to solve them. No Mycenologist can currently cover with authority all the field and the Companion is aimed both at the beginner who needs an introduction to the whole area and to advanced scholars (archaeologists, historians, classicists) who require an up-to-date account which can serve as a standard reference tool.</p>

Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 2 (Bibliotheque Des Cahiers de Linguistique de Louvain (Bcll))

Problems in Decipherment (Bibliotheque Des Cahiers de L'Institute de Linguistique de Louvain)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Peeters Publishers

Les inscriptions étéocrétois - écrites en alphabet grec, mais en langue non hellenique (VIIe-IIe siècle avant J.C.) - sont l'une des voies les plus souvent utilisées pour accéder aux langues de la Crète minoenne ("hiéroglyphique" crétois et linéaire A). Le lecteur sans partipris risque toutefois de s'égarer dans un labyrinthe d'interprétations contradictoires et de questions difficiles. Ce livre voudrait offrir, en guise de fil d'Ariane, une mise au point rigoureuse sur le problème.

L'Étéocrétois: Les Textes, La Langue (London Studies in Classical Philology) (English and Greek Edition)

Dramas & Plays

BRILL

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