Cypro-Minoan script

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Cypro-Minoan clay balls (CM I)
Cypro-Minoan clay tablet from Enkomi (CM II)
Some characters of the Cypro-Minosan script, whose equality with the corresponding characters of the Cypriot script is supported by the majority of researchers. Written (2015) by D. Lytov based on articles by Colless, Faucounau, Ferrara, Steele.

The Cypro-Minoan script (also old Cypro script or linear script C , short: CM) is a writing system, probably a syllable script , which was used in Bronze Age Cyprus from around the 15th to the 12th century BC. Was used. Individual finds also come from Ugarit and Latakia (both in today's Syria) as well as from Cannatello (in Sicily ). It originated from the Minoan linear script A and was the predecessor of the Cypriot script . It is divided into three closely related writing systems (CM I, CM II and CM III); there is also an archaic variant that is very close to the linear font A. However, the unity of CM I has recently been heavily questioned. Almost 50 syllable characters can be identified with a certain degree of certainty through comparisons with legible, related scripts ( Linear B , Cypriot script), but the texts are largely incomprehensible because the underlying Cypro-Minoan language , probably a forerunner of the Eeteokyprian language , is still incomprehensible . The font has a total of 114 characters, 24 characters appear in all three writing systems. The text corpus consists mainly of presumably literary texts on fired clay tablets, votive inscriptions (?), Five clay cylinders of unknown function, small clay bulls and other inscriptions of unknown function.

literature

  • Yves Duhoux : Eteocypriot and Cypro-Minoan 1-3. In: Kadmos . Vol. 48, 2010, pp. 39-75.
  • Jean Faucounau: The Cypro-Minoan Scripts. A reappraisal. In: Archæologia Cypria. Vol. 3, 1994.
  • Silvia Ferrara: Cypro-Minoan inscriptions. Vol. 1: Analysis. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-960757-0 .
  • Silvia Ferrara: Cypro-Minoan inscriptions. Vol. 2: Corpus. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-969382-5 .
  • Stefan Hiller : The Cypro-Minoan writing systems. In: Archive for Orient Research. Supplement 20. Berger, Horn 1985, ISSN  1015-3403 .
  • Emilia Masson: Étude de vingt-six boules d'argile inscrites trouvées a Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre). In: Studies in Mediterranean Archeology. Vol. 31,1: Studies in the Cypro-Minoan Scripts 1. Åström, Göteborg 1971, ISBN 91-85058-41-6 , ISBN 91-85058-42-4 .
  • Emilia Masson: Speaking of the grand cylindre inscrit d'Enkomi . In: Kadmos. Vol. 12, 1973, pp. 79-80, ISSN  0022-7498 .
  • Emilia Masson: Cyprominoica - Repertoires, Documents de Ras Shamra, Essais d'Interpretation. In: Studies in Mediterranean Archeology. Vol. 31,2: Studies in the Cypro-Minoan Scripts 2. Åström, Göteborg 1974, ISBN 91-85058-41-6 , ISBN 91-85058-43-2 (among other things contains a list of all characters).
  • Olivier Masson: Repertoire des inscriptions chypro-minoennes. In: Minos. Vol. 5, 1957, pp. 9-27. (Very incomplete list of the Cypro-Minoan inscriptions due to numerous new finds).
  • Piero Meriggi : I nuovi testi Ciprominoici. In: Minos. Vol. 13, 1973, pp. 197 ff., ISSN  0544-3733 .
  • Werner Nahm: Studies on the Cypro-Minoan script I In: Kadmos. Vol. 20, 1981, pp. 52-63, ISSN  0022-7498 .
  • Werner Nahm: Studies on the Cypro-Minoan script II. In: Kadmos. Vol. 23, 1984, pp. 164-179, ISSN  0022-7498 .
  • Philippa M. Steele: A linguistic history of ancient Cyprus . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013.
  • Philippa M. Steele (Ed.): Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published: Emilia Masson: Étude de vingt-six boules d'argile inscrites trouvées a Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre) (see bibliography), p. 14, No. 8, Fig. 8
  2. ↑ Published: Émilia Masson: Deux fragments de tablets chypro-minoennes trouvés a Enkomi en 1953 et 1969. In: Journal des Savants. 1978, pp. 49-86.
  3. ^ Peter M. Day - Louise Joyner: Coarseware Stirrup Jars from Cannatello, Sicily. New Evidence from Petrographic Analysis. , Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (SMEA), 47, 2005, p. 309. online as PDF
  4. ^ Thomas G. Palaima: Cypro-Minoan Scripts. In: Yves Duhoux u. a. (Ed.): Problems in Decipherment. Peeters, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997, pp. 121-188.
  5. ↑ The numbers are probably a bit higher; they were taken from the incomplete list with regard to CM I in Masson, Cyprominoica .