SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF MINOAN WRITING.
This article looks at the non-utilitarian functions of writing in Crete during the Palatial period. It argues that writing was used as a marker of status and prestige and that it was also used for communication with the divine. It also attempts to interpret what have usually been seen as isolated ex...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Archaeology Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 29 - 42 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2005
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| Sumario: | This article looks at the non-utilitarian functions of writing in Crete during the Palatial period. It argues that writing was used as a marker of status and prestige and that it was also used for communication with the divine. It also attempts to interpret what have usually been seen as isolated examples of writing systems as pseudo-writing. |
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