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Reading Linear B Volume 1

Coming soon in April 2026

Authors

, University of Oxford
Published 2026

Description

This book, which draws on Lisa Bendall's lectures over three decades, provides an engaging and accessible survey of everything students need to know to read and understand texts in Linear B. As John Chadwick noted, the Linear B scholar must be 'not just an epigraphist, not just a linguist, not just an economic historian and archaeologist; ideally he or she…must be all these things simultaneously'. Volume 1 introduces the student to the writing system and the language, especially the phonology…

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Key features

  • Provides a step-by-step introduction to Linear B, assuming no prior specialist knowledge, to give students confidence to read and understand the documents themselves
  • Covers all the areas required to understand the documents, from philology to archaeology, so that students from different subject backgrounds are catered for
  • Draws on the lectures given by the author over three decades and so is well-attuned to what the beginning student needs to know

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