Linear A: Updates

inaugural date: 30 December 2007; last update: 15 March 2008

Recent changes:
7 Jan 2004note to KN 22b; PK ZB
24 June 2004PK 1.6: PU2-MI to NI-MI
21 July 2005slight changes to Kea and Melos; Milet to Miletos; complete rewrite of Thera
22 July 2005long 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 2005TY 3b.1: is KI-RI-SI the verbal (singular) of KI-RO?
24 August 2005SKO Zc 1 added
27 Nov 2005addition of the Linear A & B grids
16 March 2006to "Verbs" a new entry, A-KA-NU-ZA-TI
11 May 2006at the prompting of Miguel Valério: a new reading for PK Za 8
3 August 2006words appearing in both Linear A and B
15 August 2006corrected KO Za 1.b-c (RE is not to be doubted)
10 September 2006added 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 2007click-on images added to PL Zf1 and PO Zg 1
21 March 2007new 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 2007notes 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 2007clean 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 2007rearrange HT Zd 155-157 according to information submitted by P. Militelli in Nov 2006 [sorry!]; revise slightly the Chronology section, this file
13 August 2007many small corrections (many thanks: Peggy Duly)
26 August 2007minor corrections to the AB grids (many thanks: Ugur Murat Leloglu)
18 September 2007Photo and additional information added to SI Zg 1.
19 November 2007minor corrections; spelling out logograms *531, *539, *546, *558-*563
24 November 2007recording a comparison (s.v. HT 94) between HT 94 and HT Wc 3017
25 November 2007note comparing KA-DI on ZA 4 and 15
12-13 December 2007more information on Ideograms/Logograms
29 December 2007reworking the commentary to HT 31
30 December 2007creating this file (it was taking up too much room in the homepage)
14 January 2008updating the bibliography to 2007
15 March 2008adding scribal attributions from GORILA V: 83-104, Militello 1989
22 March 2008adding new inscriptions from Khania (KH 97-99, KH Wc 2123, KH Zb 1) from Andreadi-Vlasaki & Hallager 2007
11 April 2008cleaned HT Wa series


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