TY  - BOOK
ED  - Jasink, Anna Margherita
ED  - Weingarten, Judith
ED  - Ferrara, Silvia
AB  - This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script  and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate  societies. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much  better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with  non-scribal operations conducted by people of the «middling» sort. Who made these  marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze  Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East  (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the  Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks
DO  - 10.36253/978-88-6453-637-8
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000296
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1051779680
KW  - Script
KW  - non-scribal communication
KW  - media
KW  - bronze age
KW  - Clay
KW  - Common Era
KW  - Crete
KW  - Cylinder seal
KW  - Cypro-Minoan syllabary
KW  - Minoan civilization
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/89f8204f-66c9-4585-b901-16c897e6547c/non-scribal.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29647
PB  - Firenze University Press
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9788864536361; 9788864536378
TI  - Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas : The semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media (seals, potmarks, mason’s marks, seal-impressed pottery, ideograms and logograms, and related systems)
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