Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers: At Home and Overseas

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Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers: At Home and Overseas
	Contents
	1 Introduction to the Cypro-Minoan Script
		1.1 What We Can Learn from the Study of Script
		1.2 The Late Bronze Age (c. 1650–1050 BCE): Cyprus in Context
		1.3 What Comes Next
	2 Approaches to Decipherment
		2.1 Script, Language, and Decipherment
		2.2 Computational Approaches, New Technologies,
and Signaries
		2.3 Cypro-Minoan Decipherment Attempts
	3 Defining a Script
		3.1 Cypro-Minoan: The First Fifty Years of Its Discovery
(1896–1950)
		3.2 One Cypro-Minoan or Three?
		3.3 The Era of the Corpus and Beyond (2007–Today)
		3.4 Materiality and Single-Sign Texts
	4 Mercantile Writers
		4.1 Mercantile Texts
		4.2 Mercantile Writers
		4.3 Mercantile Writing during and after the Collapse
	5 Landlubbers
		5.1 Who Is Writing on Cyprus (and Sometimes Abroad)
		5.2 Insular Documents Forms
		5.3 Cypro-Minoan in the Iron Age
		5.4 Cypro-Minoan Document Forms and the Alphabet
		5.5 Conclusions
References
Acknowledgments