CLCV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Minoan Pottery, Knossos, Cretan Hieroglyphs
24 Sep 2016
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Each symbol represents a sound (syllable: logograms. The sign represents the word for the object: ideograms. It was made in southern crete, but mostly found in palaces such as knossos and phaistos: late minoan i a pottery is painted with oral decoration, late minoan i b pottery is decorated in marine style. Ancient writing: sealstones tell us about their owners. Those with symbols say the owner is literate. Those made of expensive material say the owner is wealthy. Those sealing commodities give the personal guarantee of the owner for the purity/quantity of goods. The person who owns the sealstone has power/authority: many sea rings from crete have scenes like paintings, crete had 3 writing systems. Wednesday, september 21, 2016: the phaistos disc is an engima. It has not been deciphered: linear b has 3 types of symbol. Ideograms (pictures: it was deciphered by michael ventris and is greek, it was used for record-keeping.
