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SUMMARY:Learning to spell in Linear B: evidence for scribal training in My
 cenaean Pylos - Anna Judson - SCR
DTSTART:20180501T200000Z
DTEND:20180501T203000Z
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CONTACT:Stephan Ursprung
DESCRIPTION:The Linear B writing system was used in the Mycenaean palaces 
 of Late Bronze Age Greece (c.1400-1200 BCE) by scribes who kept administra
 tive records of goods and people under the control of the palaces. Since n
 one of these records ever refers directly the scribes themselves\, the onl
 y way we can understand them and their work is indirectly\, via the admini
 strative texts they wrote. This talk will explore the evidence offered by 
 spelling variation in texts from the palace of Pylos for the ways in scrib
 es may have been trained to write at this site.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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