| The Minoan Roundel and Other Sealed Documents in the Neopalatial Linear a Administration Contributor(s): Hallager, Erik (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935488090 ISBN-13: 9781935488095 Publisher: Peeters OUR PRICE: $163.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: A thorough study of the entire corpus of Minoan roundels - a unique type of admistrative document which took the form of a clay disk with seal impressions on the rim and linear A signs on the faces. They were never attached to objects and are only found with linear A inscriptions. Hallager makes comparisons with other types of Minoan administrative documents and looks in detail at the seal impressions and inscriptions, making comparisons with other types of sealed documents. He concludes that they were used for local administrative purposes. The catalogue is contained in a separate volume, each item described in detail with photographs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Series: Aegaeum |
| Physical Information: 600 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the very beginning of the 20th century, British and Italian archaeologists unearthed at Knossos, Zakro and Hagia Triada ca. 4/5 of all sealed documents known from the Minoan Neopalatial Linear A administration. With few exceptions none of these documents are yet fully published. In this book the corpus of the Minoan roundels is presented together with lists of the 2.120 known sealed documents from the Neopalatial Linear A administration in Crete with museum numbers, seal numbers etc. The sealed documents are divided into four main categories: roundels, noduli (divided into disk- and dome-shaped), flat-based nodules (with four sub-groups) and hanging nodules (divided into two-hole and single-hole hanging nodules, the last of which exist in five types). In the book it is argued that the roundel functioned as a receipt within the local administration, while the uninscribed flat-based nodules were stamped by important officials and sealed documents written on parchment and that the single-hole hanging nodules were also attached to (perhaps legal) documents, possibly written on papyrus. The book is an indispensable reference work for any future study of the Minoan Linear A administration. |
