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- Title
The Phaistos Disk: A New Way of Viewing the Language Behind the Script.
- Authors
Davis, Brent
- Abstract
Summary: This paper outlines a new linguistics‐based method of investigating the languages behind the undeciphered members of the Bronze Age Aegean family of syllabic scripts. Using this new method to compare the pictographic script on the Phaistos Disk against Linear A, the main script of the Minoans, reveals a statistically significant similarity in the behaviour of the homomorphs in the two scripts, strongly suggesting that both scripts encode the same language.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS; SIGNS &; symbols; LANGUAGE &; languages; MINOANS; HOMOMORPHISMS
- Publication
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 4, p373
- ISSN
0262-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ojoa.12151