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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