The Story of Decipherment
From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-500-28105-5 (ISBN)
Description
The desire to solve mysteries is as old as humanity and the spell of an unknown writing has always been particularly potent. This is a discussion of the contributions to the science of decipherment made by theorists such as Leibnitz and by brilliant practitioners of it from Champollion to Ventris. Maurice Pope examines the intellectual developments that lead to their outstanding achievements, and describes the process of decipherment, providing quotations from their original publications and many examples of their drawings, tables and diagrams. Among the scripts the author analyses are the Palmyra script, Sassanid Persian, Egyptian hieroglyphic, Persian cuniform, Akkadian cuneiform, the Cypriot syllabary, Hittitte hieroglyphic, the Ugaritic alphabet and Mycenaean Linear B.
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Edition
Revised Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
1 map; 126 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-500-28105-5 (9780500281055)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
07/1976
Thames & Hudson Ltd
€24.89
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Content
Part 1 The Egyptian hieroglyphs: through Renaissance eyes; the 18th century; from the Rosetta Stone to Champollion's Decipherment. Part 2 Cuneiform: Persian cuneiform; other cuneiform scripts. Part 3 Agean and Anatolian writing: the Cypriot syllabary; Hittitte hieroglyphic; Evans and the Aegean scripts; Kober, Ventris and Linear B. Conclusion - the history of writing.