Book contents
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- 4 Merneith
- 5 Šimatum and Kirum
- 6 The Woman of La Almoloya
- 7 The Priestess of Anemospilia
- 8 Hatshepsut
- 9 Puduhepa
- 10 Eritha and Karpathia
- 11 Hatiba
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
10 - Eritha and Karpathia
from Part II - The Bronze Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- 4 Merneith
- 5 Šimatum and Kirum
- 6 The Woman of La Almoloya
- 7 The Priestess of Anemospilia
- 8 Hatshepsut
- 9 Puduhepa
- 10 Eritha and Karpathia
- 11 Hatiba
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Late Bronze Age Greece was a partly literate place. The Minoans had used a hieroglyphic script and a type of writing we call Linear A, which remain undeciphered, but the Mycenaeans, or at least the authorities associated with some of the palaces, wrote on clay tablets in Greek using the Linear B script. These Linear B tablets, accidentally preserved in fires, were first translated by Michael Ventris in 1952 and then published as a corpus in co-operation with John Chadwick.1 Tablets continue to be found even now, extending our knowledge of Mycenaean Greece. None of them record history, literature or poetry, nor are there any lists of kings, but the information they do contain is nevertheless precious.
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- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldFrom the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines, pp. 95 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023