^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Early Mediterranean Scripts : Conversations about Space and Time - 2021

Speaking Luwian Today
Scripts Are Related
Science in Transition
How Does Decipherment Work?

The Generalist's Approach
Combining an Internal and an External Approach
Why Decipherings Are Needed
Talking about Methods
Schools of Thought
Understanding Linear A
The Notorious Phaistos Disc
Arthur Evans Caused Some Harm
Waves of Indo-Europeanization across the Mediterranean

All Emerged from the Steppe
It All Began 5000 Years Ago
Another Wave of Indo-European Speakers
Of Indo-Aryans and Hyksos
Minoan Crete Was Multiethnic
Immigrants Tended to Be Hostile
How the Languages Arrived
The Earliest Cretan Scripts

How the Script Came to Crete
Linearizing Hieroglyphs
Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Phaistos Disc
Looking across the Border
Let Atlantis Rest
The Lasting Success of Luwian Hieroglyphic

Two Forms of Luwian
Step by Step towards a Decipherment
Why Not Read Luwian?
Some Signs Are Polyphonic
No Sign for i Anymore
Recent Finds – Questionable and Unquestionable Ones
Yet More Inscriptions Appear
Byblos Needs Its Own Script

The Byblos Script
What the Documents Say
The Road to Decipherment
A Cypriot Admiral Calls for Help

Different Approaches
All about Business
Hittite Ambitions A Spectacular Discovery
Origin and Motives of the Sea Peoples

How the Situation Evolved
Famines in Anatolia
Where Was Haunebut?
Weshesh, Sherden, Shekelesh – and All the Rest of It
What Fred Thinks Happened
Some Discrepancies
What Eberhard Thinks Happened
The Etruscans Came from Asia Minor

Connections with Anatolian Languages
The Pyrgi Tablets
A Whole Book: The Liber Linteus
The Enigmatic Lemnos Stele
Where Do We Go from Here?
Don't Forget the Rhaetians!
What Are the Consequences?
Other Luwian Dialects, Such as Lydian, Lycian and Carian

Lycian Can Be Read and Understood
Three Signs in Lydian Should Be Corrected
Sidetic Contains Signs from Cypriot Script
Carian Has Not Been Deciphered Correctly
Southwest Iberian Is Celtic
The Alphabet Becomes Semi-Syllabic
They Spoke Celtic, What Else!
The King Is Named after the Silver
Phoenician Port Towns Were Not Harmed
The Celts Enter Iberia
Iberia as a Sideshow
A Dedication to Reinforce a Bilateral Treaty
Etymology or No Etymology – That Is the Question

Appendix

Endnotes
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index
About the Authors