inaugural date: 30 December 2007; last update: 21 November 2009

Recent changes:

7 Jan 2004	note to KN 22b; PK ZB
24 June 2004	PK 1.6: PU2-MI to NI-MI
21 July 2005	slight changes to Kea and Melos; Milet to Miletos; complete rewrite of Thera
22 July 2005	long explanation of why DD is not a fraction but the "Double Mina"; D should therefore be the single mina, not a fraction, and KU is its phonetic abbreviation
27 July 2005	TY 3b.1: is KI-RI-SI the verbal (singular) of KI-RO?
24 August 2005	SKO Zc 1 added
27 Nov 2005	addition of the Linear A & B grids
16 March 2006	to "Verbs" a new entry, A-KA-NU-ZA-TI
11 May 2006	at the prompting of Miguel Valério: a new reading for PK Za 8
3 August 2006	words appearing in both Linear A and B
15 August 2006	corrected KO Za 1.b-c (RE is not to be doubted)
10 September 2006	added Linear A Ideograms: a folder giving the common, identified ideograms and their signs, and copies of GORILA's sign charts and palaeographic sign charts
18 January 2007	click-on images added to PL Zf1 and PO Zg 1
21 March 2007	new files on Cretan Hieroglyphic; slight change in accessing the AB grids (see below); addition of Hiero grid (see below); slight changes to HT 128 and ZA 6; long section on "A-DU" (compare A-DE in Hieroglyphic)
3 April 2007	notes on the vase-ideograms of HT 31, 39; MA 10; PH 8; reorganization of Kythera with more information; possible identification of *123 as similar to Linear B AROM (HT 9, 15, 39, 96; KH 53; ZA 20)
18 May 2007	clean up Introduction; ZA 15a.7, restored; A *363 = SO (thanks to M. Valério; also see Hiero #039 and parallel document LinA HT 9); A *314 = PU3 (BU, according to Owens 1999 & Facchetti 1999)
21 May 2007	rearrange HT Zd 155-157 according to information submitted by P. Militelli in Nov 2006 [sorry!]; revise slightly the Chronology section, this file
13 August 2007	many small corrections (many thanks: Peggy Duly)
26 August 2007	minor corrections to the AB grids (many thanks: Ugur Murat Leloglu)
18 September 2007	Photo and additional information added to SI Zg 1.
19 November 2007	minor corrections; spelling out logograms *531, *539, *546, *558-*563
24 November 2007	recording a comparison (s.v. HT 94) between HT 94 and HT Wc 3017
25 November 2007	note comparing KA-DI on ZA 4 and 15
12-13 December 2007	more information on Ideograms/Logograms
29 December 2007	reworking the commentary to HT 31
30 December 2007	creating this file (it was taking up too much room in the homepage)
14 January 2008	updating the bibliography to 2007
15 March 2008	adding scribal attributions from GORILA V: 83-104, Militello 1989
22 March 2008	adding new inscriptions from Khania (KH 97-99, KH Wc 2123, KH Zb 1) from Andreadi-Vlasaki & Hallager 2007
11 April 2008	cleaned HT Wa series
1 June 2008	improved reading for PK Zb 21 by Brent Davis
26 July 2008	PK Zb 25? is now PK Zb ?; added the real PK Zb 25; added Bennett 1999 to biblio.html; added new section on fractions
7 Sep 2008	new Hiero fonts for MAC OS X, courtesy of Jean-Pierre Olivier, are now downloadable from the Linear A homepage
15 Sep 2008	corrected fractions in PE 2; added comments to MA 10, re: b.1: *405VAS+Ω = Hiero *304 fraction = 1/2
24 Dec 2008	added the Lexicon; added DU-PU2-RE ("master/lord") to Vocabulary (Introduction);) more information in Grammar & Libation Formula sections of the Introduction; corrected readings to KN Zc 6 & 7, PK Za 11; Valério 2007 added to Bibliography
25 Dec 2008	minor cleanups, especially of fractions (in the introduction, and here and there); text added to the weights SI Zg 1 and HT Zg 163.
7 Jan 2009	notes to HT 88.2, KN Za 19, ZA 21a.7: )-MI-NA might represent the 2nd occurrence of a word writing out an ideogram, in this case *118
17 Jan 2009	minor corrections to HT 67a.3; HT 96a.1-2, a.5; and PK Za 15
17 Feb 2009	corrections to SY Za 1-3 and the additions of the new texts SY Za 4-6, Zb 7, Za 8-12
2 Mar 2009	corrections to PH 9, 13-15, 17 (thanks to the prodding of D. Rumpel)
6 Mar 2009	uploaded a PDF of the Syme inscriptions, added Syme vocabulary to the Lexicon
14 Mar 2009	major: addition of the fraction D (1/5) to the known or surmisable fractions; see comments to HT 115, KH 85, ZA 8; minor corrections to HT 104, HT 108, KH 11, KH 16, KH 34, KH Wc 2067, KH Wc 2068, KH Wc 2104, and KH Wc 2105 (thanks to D. Rumple).
5 Apr 2009	minor changes to HT 13, 21, 22, 30, 35, 45, 60, 86 (thanks to Julio Fontán-Tejeiro).
25 Apr 2009	minor changes to HT 91-93, 98, 100, 109, 111, 120, We/Wc 3020; ARKH 1, 2; KE 1; KH 1-5, 7-10, 12-15, 17, 21, 26, 31, 35, 38, 47, 51, 58, 60, 64, 66, 76, 82, 92, 97; and a new reading for KH 83.2 (thanks to Julio Fontán-Tejeiro).
25 Apr 2009	some major changes and some attention paid to lay-out on HT 8, 9, 11, 12, 24, 25, 28, 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 56, 85, 94, 97, 99, 101, 106, 108, 116 (a new lay-out), 117, 118, 126, 127, 130, 131, 140, 154B
27-29 Apr 2009	attention paid to lay-out and shape of tablets, information added to almost all tablet documents; improved readings for HT 97b, ARKH 2, MI 2, ZA 27
3 May 2009	minor corrections here and there; better reading suggested for ARKH 2.3-4; further notes on, and probably better readings of, HT Zd 155-157.
15 May 2009	I read *315 ONLY on KH 82.3; all former readings of SA-*315 (HT 9a.1, 17.2, 19.2, 42.2) are to be correct to SA-RO; sign *315 on HT 49a.4 cannot be verified.
4 June 2009	Thanks to Brent Davis: new information about the weights of HT Zg 163, KN Zg <21>, MO Zf 1, and SI Zg 1
7 June 2009	Thanks to Anna Michailidou: new information about the weight of SI Zg 1
17 July 2009	Monti 2008 added to bibliography; note to HT 31.3 added.
15 August 2009	critique of the "decipherment" of Linear A by Hubert La Marle
20 August 2009	new interpretation of HT 8 and of logogram PA and PA3) by Brent Davis (with slight modificatin by JGY); consequent new notes to HT 34.6 and 103.2; minor corrections to HT 9, HT 26b.4, ZA 12
27 September 2009	correction in HT 24a.2, 3, 4: *561 (MA+RU ME)
16 October 2009	suggested alternative reading for HT 36a.2
17 November 2009	adding possible parallels in Linear B to words in the lexicon, based on Schoep 2002, 155 table 3.22
21 November 2009	adding Schoep 2002, format types

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