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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765739003321

Titolo

Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas : The semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media (seals, potmarks, mason's marks, seal-impressed pottery, ideograms and logograms, and related systems) / / edited by Anna Margherita Jasink, Judith Weingarten, and Silvia Ferrara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, Italy : , : Firenze University Press, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 256 pages)

Collana

Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca ; ; vol. 196

Disciplina

411.7

Soggetti

Inscriptions

Europe Aegean Sea Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PREFACE / Anna Margherita Jasink, Judith Weingarten, Silvia Ferrara ; AREAS. AEGEAN. A MEASURED WORLD? MEASURES IN MINOAN DAILY LIFE / Maria Emanuela Alberti ; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD: HIEROGLYPHIC SEALS AS PERSONAL MARKERS AND OBJECTS OF DISPLAY / Silvia Ferrara, Anna Margherita Jasink ; MANAGEMENT, POWER AND NON-LITERATE COMMUNICATION IN PREPALATIAL AND PALATIAL MESARA / Pietro Militello ; ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS WITHOUT WRITING: THE CASE OF SEALINGS AND FLAT-BASED NODULES / Massimo Perna ; THE ROLE OF NON-WRITTEN COMMUNICATION IN MINOAN ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES / Ilse Schoep ; WHEN ONE EQUALS ONE: THE MINOAN ROUNDEL / Judith Weingarten ; ANATOLIA AND CYPRUS. HOW TO READ THE SIGNS: THE USE OF SYMBOLS, MARKING AND PICTOGRAPHS IN BRONZE AGE ANATOLIA / Willemijn Waal ; CYPRO-MINOAN IN MARKING SYSTEMS OF THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN: NEW METHODS OF INVESTIGATING OLD QUESTIONS / Miguel Valério, Brent Davis ; NON-SCRIBAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA IN THE BRONZE AGE AEGEAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS ; WRITING SYSTEMS: LITERACY AND THE TRANSMISSION OF WRITING IN NON-ADMINISTRATIVE CONTEXTS / Philippa Steele ; NEAR EAST AND EGYPT. MAKING TOKENS TALK / Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Niloufar Moghimi ; SEAL IMPRESSIONS ON



JARS: IMAGES, STORAGE AND ADMINISTRATION / Stefania Mazzoni ; NON-SCRIBAL COMMUNICATION IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATE BRONZE AGES / Assaf Yasur-Landau ; PREDYNASTIC EGYPTIAN ICONOGRAPHY: CONTRIBUTIONS AND RELATIONS WITH THE HIEROGLYPHIC SYSTEM'S ORIGIN / Gwenola Graff ; IDENTITY MARKS IN ANCIENT EGYPT: SCRIBAL AND NON-SCRIBAL MODES OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION / Ben Haring ; FINAL REFLECTIONS / John Bennet.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate societies of the ancient Aegean. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with non-scribal operations conducted by people of the 'middling' sort. Who made these marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks.