inaugural date: 30 December 2007; last update: 13 February 2012

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
5 December 2009	adding more information from Schoep 2002 on individual documents (esp. HT 123+124) in HTtexts.html (esp. the introduction) and misctexts.html
10 December 2009	a re-write of the homepage, before adding more information from Schoep 2002; overhaul of the section on fractions (with commentary to HT 123 & KH 7); minor additions to individual documents
16 December 2009	a re-write of the homepage, information from Schoep 2002 included
19 December 2009	addition of texts in Raison-Pope 1994 but not in GORILA
26 December 2009	addition of maps and plans where Linear A has been found in Crete, Greece, and at HT
8 February 2010	rewrite of the entry on KA-PA on the homepage; addition of Palmer (Ruth) 2004 in the Bibliography
20 February 2010	rewrite of the commentary to HT 123+125.
6 March 2010	correct HT 126b
15 March 2010	new comments for HT 28, 32, 34, 85, 90, 94, 100, 101, 114, 117, 119, 125, and 128; some of these comments note how people are counted in sets of 6 individuals, how some numbers cluster around the unit 10, and how small numbers may imply disbursements while large, round number may imply assessments or contributions.
16 March 2010	correct lexicon.html: RA-KA (omit KE Zb 5)
18 March 2010	correct HT 115a.1-2 and lexicon.html: RI-TA-MA-NU-WI, not RI-SU-MA- (a.6: in erasure)
1 April 2010	correct MA 10c, d
11 April 2010	slight corrections to HT 9, 15, 24, 44, 104, 115, 124; and ZA 6. And corresponding corrections to the lexicon.
17 April 2010	corrected reading of KH Wa 1001, 1002. Corrected text in the discussion of the Libation Formula on the homepage (I-PI-NA-MI-NA has nothing to do with being a verb). Discussion on rations in HT 88 and 89.
28 April 2010	corrected readings of HT 8, 23, 36, 49, and alternative readings for PK Zb 19. HT 34.7 may support the identification of fraction F as 1/8 (see note). The ligatured logogram *529 SE+SI (*41+*09) may just as equally be SI+SE (GORILA identifies the components of complex signs by putting first the sign that appears most frequently in complex signs, in this case SE); if SI-SE, then cf. A-SI-SE-NA, SI-SE-TA.
1 May 2010	added notes to ZA Zg 35, and MI+JA-RU in the lexicon
21 June 2010	added bibliography and notes to the Petras section
30 June 2010	adding a critique of Kjell Aartun's decipherment of Linear A to the page on La Marle
2 July 2010	adding MY Zf 2, the first appearnance of AB 43, AI; suggesting A *306 is the peculiarly Linear A version of 43, AI
5 July 2010	small corrections to LaMarleAartun.html
25 July 2010	added PK Zb? RE B, which supports the value of B = 1/3, and added Hood 1964 to biblio.html
12 August 2010	notes added to KO Za 1 and SY Za 2, pointing out the resemblance between signs RE & OLIV on the two documents, respectively (thanks to Brent Davis), and correcting some doubtful signs in these two inscriptions in the lexicon
13 August 2010	slight correction to KE Zb 5 (ligature *595 is slightly more complicated).
25 August 2010	correction to HT 34 (no SA-VINa), HT 23 & 24 (SI+ME), 26b.3 & 127b.5,6 KI+MU (not KU+MU)
9 October 2010	correction to HT 21 -- it listed side.line a.1 etc., implying a side b -- nothing is written on the reverse of HT 21.
24 October 2010	suggestions that *34 = MNA, *66 (TA2) = TNA; and subsequent links in the lexicon
9 November 2010	discussion of the "continuity" principle on the homepage, and its application to PH(?) 31a.3 and b.4 (discussion of signgroup SUS+SI+RE as possibly SI+AU+RE), with subsequent correction to the reading of HT 27b
13 November 2010	continued corrections to PH(?) 31 and improved readings, using suggestions made by Julio Fontán-Tejeiro.
25 November 2010	new inscriptions added: PE Zg 6, PE Zb 7, PE Zb 8; and slightly improved (?) readings for KH 97-99
29 November 2010	correction to HT 26a.1 and b.1: 406VAS+KE, not 407VAS+A
19 December 2010	change all references from CYP to *303, a grain
28 December 2010	rewritten note on the homepage concerning *34 and a new note for *325
14 January 2011	correction to IO Za 2 in religioustexts.html -- thanks to Evelina Teneva
20 March 2011	correction to SAM We 4
14 May 2011	addition of a discussion of weights in Intro section 15. Metrology, and addition of 2 items in biblio.html: Evans 1906 & Parise 1967. Slight correction and note added to KN Zb <27>.
19 November 2011	CR(?) Zf 1 & Kn Zf 31: reverse decoration noted
24 November 2011	revision of the introduction's chronology
10 January 2012	PE Zb 7, photo of pithos inscription after complete restoration, thanks to Kim Raymoure
10 January 2012	in ABgrids.html, the addition of a mPn series for: 56?? (mPA3), 22?? (mPI2), 29?? (mPU2) (Duhoux 1984, Janda 1986, Melena 1987)
13 February 2012	correction for VRY Za 1: museum & inventory no.

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