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- Title
SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF MINOAN WRITING.
- Authors
Whittaker, Helène
- Abstract
This article looks at the non-utilitarian functions of writing in Crete during the Palatial period. It argues that writing was used as a marker of status and prestige and that it was also used for communication with the divine. It also attempts to interpret what have usually been seen as isolated examples of writing systems as pseudo-writing.
- Subjects
CRETE (Greece); GREECE; PSEUDOCODE (Computer program language); WRITING; COMMUNICATION; SIGNS &; symbols; INSCRIPTIONS
- Publication
European Journal of Archaeology, 2005, Vol 8, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1461-9571
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1461957105058207