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• Clay seals and goddesses

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Robert Eisner asserts, "The Greek Artemis surely descends from the Minoan Mistress of beasts."[1] This statement seems hard to deny nowdays which is why I recently explored how a-ra-tu-me on a Minoan clay seal (HT Wc 3024.a) might in some way be related to the name Artemis. That being said, a caveat is in ...
  18 hours ago

• Etruscan Artemis and the unexpected vowel change

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Lets retire Bronze Age Mediterranean phonology for a while and talk about Etruscans and their deities again. On page 57 of The religion of the Etruscans‎ (2006), Erika Simon explains to us that Etruscan Artume ~ Aritimi, the goddess of hunt and lady of the moon reknowned for her superior archery, is directly taken ...
  1 week ago

• Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  John Strange (in Caphtor/Keftiu: A new investigation, p.21) shows Minoan citynames written out in Egyptian as they were known during the reign of Amenhotep III in the 14th century BCE. The picture below is courtesy of this reference via Google Books.I noticed something in these lists that involves the way that these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Linear A treatment of consonant clusters

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  I just discovered Minoan language blog by Andras Zeke, and in particular an intelligent post called Treatment of consonantal clusters in Linear A and B. Here, Zeke goes into excellent detail about his observations of Linear Bs handling of consonant clusters and what impact that may have on rules implicit in Linear A. ...
  3 weeks ago

• They thought Minoan art was cool!

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 128
  Not an unusual feeling, but this still evokes in me a "well, wow!" reaction: The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Hardcover)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 144
  Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Hardcover)…
  3 weeks ago

• Minoan inscription HT 104

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  I find it very sad that theres so little decent conversation about Minoan artifacts despite ample information available online. John Younger has gone to great trouble to detail all sorts of Minoan artifacts and their inscriptions (link here) yet I havent seen much active discussion in the blogosphere about it. Why?? ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  In my previous post (Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim), I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE. This shouldnt be a provocative speculation given the facts and communis opinio. However, the question is exactly how the name entered ...
  4 weeks ago

• Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Ive been dwelling the past few days on the origin of Etruscan words. Many words appear to be of Doric origin and then there are even older loanwords, it seems, showing Anatolian IE, West Semitic and Egyptian influence. On the topic of the origin of the Etruscan name, Uθuze (ET Cy G.1 and OI G.39), we need only look ...
  4 weeks ago

• Study: Giant Tsunamis Nearly Annihilated The Middle East

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  According to a recent study published for this month’s reputed science journal, Geology, the Aegean Sea that was constituted of the Thera volcano was the epicenter for a host of immense killer waves also known as Tsunamis. The eruption of this giant volcano, that took place some 3,000 years ago produced massive ...
  5 weeks ago

• The reopening of the Ashmolean: infinite riches in a larger room

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  The Ashmolean in Oxford the worlds oldest museum is set to reopen after a major revamp.
  5 weeks ago

• A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  I like to explore new ideas and test them as always. One of my ever-evolving ideas is on the idea that Indo-European and Aegean are related to a common Proto-Indo-Aegean ancestor datable to 7000 BCE. Or so Ive been thinking up to now but...I decided to explore a radical new extrapolation thats got a grip on my mind ...
  5 weeks ago

• Greek Mazes, Monsters, Menages a Trois (And Bestiality to Boot!)

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 534
  Greek legend would have us believe that when King Minos (son of Zeus) came to the Cretan throne his brothers weren’t too chuffed so, in order to prove his right to the crown he ’sent an ancient email’ (prayed to Poseidon, God of the Sea) to give a sign of approval.  He asked that a white bull be sent to him as ...
  6 weeks ago

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