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Thursday, 2 June 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (CEST)
Text Matters. Epigraphy, archaeology, and our understanding of the Mycenaean world
Dr Jorrit Kelder (University of Leiden)
In my paper, I will examine not only how the materiality of Linear B texts -the earliest known texts written in Greek- may inform us about their use and meaning within Mycenaean society, but also how their materiality and related chances of survival may have skewed our understanding of that same society. In order to highlight such potential pitfalls, I will summarise the main characteristics of the corpus of Linear B (the morphology of the signs and clay tablets on which these signs were inscribed) as well as the general contexts in which these texts were, and indeed still are, found.