BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)

PAPERS, COLLOQUIA, SEMINARS

L'épigraphie crétoise, fil d'Ariane du Linéaire A, communication à l'Académie du Maine, 18 January 1997, in Cahiers de l'Académie du Maine, Le Mans, p. 6-7

In search of the Linear A people, seminar held at the University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology, Post-graduate programme of ancient history, Rethymnon, 26 November 1997

Revue des études grecques, tome 111, janvier-juin 1998, bibliographical note written by Paul Faure, p. 339-340, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, ISBN 2-251-91-111-1

The Minoan farm life through Linear A, seminar held at the University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology, Rethymnon, 23 April 1999

From the methods of reading Linear A to the 'libation formulas', seminar held at the University of Crete, Departement of History and Archaeology, 2 June 2001

Minoan metallurgy and Linear A : definitions, lexical slides and changes in metal processing, in Aegean metallurgy in the Bronze Age, international symposium, University of Crete, Departement of History and Archaeology, Rethymnon, 19-21 November 2004, pp. 183-193, Ta Pragmata, 2008, ISBN 978-960-98261-0-5

With the exception of the marks on ingots, the Linear A inscriptions on metal artefacts do not come from palatial archives, but from tombs and sacred contexts. They consist of four chronological groups (dated MM III to LMIB). The occurrence of Linear A on bronze dates as far back as the beginning of LMI, although they are older on gold and silver. The nouns 'bronze' and ''silver' are quoted on a few metal objects.

Concerning the references to metal on clay tablets, two lexical groups may be defined. The first one seems to be based on a traditional processing (low tin bronze and arsenical copper), and the second one is clearly linked to new techniques (high tin bronze). Anyway, copper seems to have kept a metrological use even for the value of gold. Linear inscriptions show that the scribes used the words for the various metals with great precision.

(tablet HT85 a from Haghia Triada - H. La Marle )