DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo
DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo) is an annotated electronic corpus of all the published Mycenaean texts, the earliest (ca. XV-XII B.C.) written bear witness of the Greek language, comprised of inscriptions inward the Linear B syllabic script.
Mycenaean texts are to a greater extent than oftentimes than non administrative documents, dating from ca 1450 to 1150 B.C., written mostly on clay tablets inward a syllabic script that nosotros telephone band Linear B. They convey been constitute inside the rests of the Mycenaean palaces both on Crete as well as mainland Greece. They total to something less as well as then 6000 documents, although many of them are brief or fragmentary texts.
Linear B is a syllabic script non related to the after Greek alphabets. It belongs to a identify unit of measurement of writing systems used inward the Aegean surface area inward the II as well as I millennium B.C., of which alone Linear B as well as the Cypriot syllabary of the I millennium convey been satisfactorily deciphered. It is of import to remark that although Linear B every bit a writing organization seems to convey functioned good every bit a tool for recording administrative information, it is non inward fact a really efficient musical instrument for rendering the phonetic organization of Greek, since it presents many inaccuracies as well as deficiencies inward this regard. This fact, together amongst the nature of the texts, sometimes makes our interpretation of the texts as well as of their linguistic communication quite uncertain. This, inward turn, shows good how of import the chance is, which an annotated electronic corpus offers, of systematically crossing all the information available at the dissimilar levels of analysis as well as inside the whole of the extant Mycenaean texts.
The linguistic communication of the documents, existence the oldest attestation of an Indo-European linguistic communication after Hittite as well as the alone attestation of a Greek dialect inward the II millennium B.C., presents several archaic as well as interesting linguistic features as well as poses some questions crucial for the history of the Greek linguistic communication (and for the plain of comparative Indo-European linguistics inward general), which, specially because of the mentioned limitations of the content of the documents as well as the shortcomings of the writing system, are notwithstanding inward ask of an appropriate, if non definitive, answer.
15.10.2019
Links to texts, images as well as information inward LiBER (Mycenaea, Midea, Tiryns) convey been added.
26.09.2019
References to Mycenaean documents inward M. Del Freo, M. Perna (eds.) Manuale di Epigrafia Micenea convey been added to the Basic Tablet Bibliography of the unmarried tablets.
15.09.2019
Links to the Pylos images inward CaLiBRA convey been added.
13.09.2019
The Knossos tablets convey been updated according to The Knossos Tablet, Sixth Edition, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Transliteration past times José L. MELENA amongst the collaboration of Richard J. FIRTH, 2018:
Series, Subseries as well as Set changes,
Scribal mitt changes,
New Joins.
Caveat: a few nipper textual differences mightiness convey escaped. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 revision of the texts is ongoing.
10.10.2018
The discovery places of the Pylos tablets convey been updated according to Firth(2017).
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