John Tyrell Killen

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John Tyrell Killen (* 1937) is a British Indo-Europeanist and mycenaeologist .

Killen was a student of John Chadwick , the scholar who, together with Michael Ventris, succeeded in deciphering the Linear B script . From 1967 to 1990 Killen was a Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge University . In 1990 he was appointed Reader and later Professor of Mycenaean Greek. He thus held one of the only two chairs in the world in this specialization (the other is held by Louis Godart in Naples ). Since 1999 he has been Professor Emeritus of Mycenaean Greek and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy .

In the field of mycenaeology , Killen was involved in the publication of the Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos and the transliteration of the tablets from Knossos . In the broader area of Indo-European studies , Killen works on Indo-European phonology and on the inscription and literary evidence for the dialects of Classical Greek .

Fonts (selection)

Collection of documents in Linear B

  • with John Chadwick, Louis Godart, Jean-Pierre Olivier , Anna Sacconi , Jannis Athanasiu Sakellarakis (eds.): Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos. 4 Vols., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987–1999, Extracts Vol. 1 online , Extracts Vol. 2 online , Bibliographical references Vol. 3 , Extracts Vol. 4 online .
  • with Jean Pierre Olivier: The Knossos Tablets: A Transliteration. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 5th edition 1989 (Minos, 11).
    • with John Chadwick, Jean-Pierre Olivier: The Knossos Tablets: A Transliteration. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 4th edition 1971.
    • with John Chadwick: The Knossos Tablets: A Transliteration of All the Texts in Linear B Script Found at Knossos, Crete, Based Upon a New Collation of Photographs and Originals. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, 3rd edition 1964 (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, supplement no.15). - (The first and second editions were edited by John Chadwick, Emmet Leslie Bennett and Michael Ventris).

Editing

  • with José L. Melena , Jean-Pierre Olivier (Ed.): Studies in Mycenaean and classical Greek presented to John Chadwick. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1987 (Minos, 20-22).

items

  • Names in -e and -eu in Mycenaean Greek. In: JHW Penney (Ed.), Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Anna Morpurgo Davies. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004.
  • Thoughts on the functions of new Thebes tablets. In: Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy , Oswald Panagl (Hrsg.), The New Linear B-Texts from Thebes: Their informative value for the Mycenaean language and culture. Files from the international research colloquium at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, December 5 and 6, 2002. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2006.
  • Conscription and Corvée at Mycenaean Pylos. In: M. Perna (Ed.), Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives. Naples, 2006.
  • Mycenaean e-re-eu. In: F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner (eds.), ΣTEΦANOΣ APIΣTEIOΣ. Archaeological research between the Nile and the Istros. Festschrift for Stefan Hiller on his 65th birthday. Phoibos Publishing House, 2007.
  • with Anna Morpurgo Davies : John Chadwick 1920–1998. In: Proceedings of the British Academy 115, 2002, 133-165.
  • The wool industry of Crete in the late Bronze Age. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens 59, 1964, pp. 1-15, (online) .

literature

  • John Bennet , JM Driessen (Ed.): A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to JT Killen. University of Salamanca Press, Salamanca (= Minos 33-34 [1998-1999]).

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personal data
SURNAME Killen, John Tyrell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Indo-Europeanist and Mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937