A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to date. The script appears on a circular ivory object with an attached handle, discovered in a context of clear religious significance within a Neopalatial building. Besides providing the longest inscription in this yet-to-be-deciphered system, the find offers new perspectives on the use of Minoan writing in ceremonial contexts.
Linear A
It’s clearly written in a circle. 🤨
Anyone willing to guess what’s the language in Linear A?
Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if it was:
- related to Etruscan and Lemnian
- Semitic
- non-Greek Indo-European (Anatolian?)
- some paleo-Balkan language unaffiliated with any of those.
“Be sure to drink your…”
Who knows what it was referring to.
that means there will be a new wave of
guessestranslations. :/but yay, more text! :)
Wonder if this is the breakthrough needed to finally crack Linear A. Probably still not enough but let’s hope!
Probably not.
If some breakthrough appears, I expect it to be a bilingual inscription containing the same text in Linear A and Linear B; similar to the Rosetta stone for Egyptian, having the text also in Greek was key.
