Understanding Relations Between Scripts by Steele Philippa;

Author:Steele, Philippa;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxbow Books, Limited
Published: 2017-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

10. The context of adaptation

These considerations lead to the final justification for reading Linear A with Linear B sound values. And for this we do not have to look into the language or even the writing system at all but should rather regard the context of Linear A and Linear B writing. Many of the document types used by Mycenaean scribes are not new inventions: although they differ in some significant ways, they are clearly adopted and adapted from the Minoan administration(s) on Crete. The most obvious continuity is found in the use of clay tablets, which are found inscribed in both Linear A and Linear B, as well as parallels in sealing practices. The most striking similarity here is found in the use of a syllabic script to spell out words alongside the use of ideograms, numerals and other signs to denote commodities and quantities: in both Linear A and Linear B, the whole system of writing, and with it a range of document types, was being used with broadly similar administrative and economic purposes (on the Linear A system see Schoep 2002).

Table 6.11: Equations between the Cypriot Syllabic script and Linear B, place names shared between Linear A and Linear B, evidence from internal variations, and evidence from ideographic use of syllabograms

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