Epigraphic
Society Occasional Publications
Table of Contents, Vol. 4/1, 1977
Paper
No.
77
The Minoan Language — Linear A decipherment
(67 pp) Barry Fell
4/1-p 12 [In this section, the first number given
below is the page number in the paper; the
second is the page number in the volume.]
Fell holds that the
Linear A Script reflects a language close to Hittite.
Introduction
4/1-p 1 (12)
Linear A Matrix
4/1-p 2 (13)
Isomorphic Equations
4/1-p 4
Equations p. 4 (15)
Inferred Paleographic Distribution of Signs p 8
(19)
Accidence —Nouns
4/1-p 9
(20)
Verbs
4/1-p 10
(21)
Vocabulary of Minoan Words in Linear A
p 11-40
(22-51)
Material Studied
4/1-p 40
(51)
Minoan Society
4/1-p 40
(51)
The Urban Centers
4/1-p 40
(51)
Government and Administration
4/1-p 41
(52)
The Agricultural Economy
4/1-p 42
(53)
The Wine Harvest
4/1-p 43
(54)
The Wheat Harvest
4/1-p 43
(54)
The Olive Harvest 4/1-p 44
(54)
Household Economy 4/1-p 51
(60)
Inscriptions on Drinking Cups
4/1-p 53
Drinking
Cups
4/1-p (62)
Harvest Festival 1250 B.C.
4/1-p 54
(63)
The Omens p. 54
(63)
The Palace Inventories 4/1-p 54
(63)
Graffiti and Signatures
4/1-p 54
(63)
References
4/1-p 54
(63)
Various tablets & Decipherments
4/1-pp 55-65 (64-77)
Appendix: Layout of a Bronze Age
Orchard
4/1-p 66 (78)
Nine Steps in the Decipherment of an Unknown Language in an Unknown Script Barry
Fell
4/1-p 67 (79)
It is possible that these steps, in the
proper hands, could be incorporated in a computer program.
78
Fell: A Letter from Hiram III, ca 540 B.C. (12 pp) Barry
Fell
4/1-p 80
Reprint of
a December 1973 paper.
Fell holds that Minoan, Paphian, and
Etruscan are inter-related languages of the
Anatolian group.
79
Fell: The Phaistos Disk ca 1600 B.C. (17 pp) Barry
Fell
4/1-p 92
Reprint of a paper published in
December 1973 about the decipherment of a bifacial ceramic tablet, the Phaistos
Disk, in the Herakleion Museum.
80
Fell: A Dialect of Minoan from
Cyprus (5 pp) Barry Fell
4/1-p
109
Reprint of a
December 1973 paper identifying a
Minoan dialect in Cyprus reflected in Cypriot inscriptions.
81
A Text to Change
the History of the World
(3 pp) Reuel A. Lochore
4/1-p 115
This article on the work of Barry Fell originally appeared
in the New Zealand Listener. Biographic information is given on Dr. Reuel
Lochore, linguist & former New Zealand ambassador to Bonn. He was educated
in various New Zealand and German Universities and holds a PhD in language &
logic. He specializes in Anatolian languages.
82
Phaistos Disk: The Oldest Printed Text. (5 pp)
Norman Totten
4/1-p
118
Reports on the Phaistos Disk (found in Crete; now in
Herakleion Museum).
On the Cover
Harvest
Festival, 1450 BC (See
p. 54, no 77).
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