Anna P . Judson
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I am an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham.
My primary research interests are the writing systems of the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus, with a particular focus on the Linear B script and Mycenaean Greek.
My PhD thesis, entitled ‘The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B’, was a study of the small group of Linear B signs whose sound-values are still unknown, combining a reanalysis of their possible values with investigations into the creation and development of the Linear B script, as well as explorations of the broader implications of palaeographic analysis of the script for our understanding of the context in which it was written.
My postdoctoral research project focuses on analysing the writing practices of the scribes responsible for the Linear B tablets: I am studying features such as handwriting and spelling and their variation between and within different scribal hands and different sites in order to gain a better understanding of the scribes’ work within the Mycenaean palaces’ administrative systems.
I am an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham.
My primary research interests are the writing systems of the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus, with a particular focus on the Linear B script and Mycenaean Greek.
My PhD thesis, entitled ‘The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B’, was a study of the small group of Linear B signs whose sound-values are still unknown, combining a reanalysis of their possible values with investigations into the creation and development of the Linear B script, as well as explorations of the broader implications of palaeographic analysis of the script for our understanding of the context in which it was written.
My postdoctoral research project focuses on analysing the writing practices of the scribes responsible for the Linear B tablets: I am studying features such as handwriting and spelling and their variation between and within different scribal hands and different sites in order to gain a better understanding of the scribes’ work within the Mycenaean palaces’ administrative systems.
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This paper investigates the issue of orthographic variation in the Linear B writing system in order to explore ways in which studying a writing system's orthographic conventions may shed light on the history of its development. Linear B was used in the palatial/administrative centres of Late Bronze Age Greece and Crete (c.1400-1200 B.C.E.) and records an early Greek dialect known as 'Mycenaean'. The writing system's structure and orthographic conventions permit flexibility in the spelling of particular phonological sequences: this paper discusses the varying orthographic representation of such sequences and shows that synchronic variation is common or even the norm in many cases. Investigating the factors which underlie this variation demonstrates the potential for a study of synchronic variation to illuminate a writing system's diachronic development; it also underlines the importance of analysing the ways in which writers actually choose to use writing systems in order to fully understand their development.
(published 2017 with R.J.E. Thompson and T. Meissner)
This paper investigates the issue of orthographic variation in the Linear B writing system in order to explore ways in which studying a writing system's orthographic conventions may shed light on the history of its development. Linear B was used in the palatial/administrative centres of Late Bronze Age Greece and Crete (c.1400-1200 B.C.E.) and records an early Greek dialect known as 'Mycenaean'. The writing system's structure and orthographic conventions permit flexibility in the spelling of particular phonological sequences: this paper discusses the varying orthographic representation of such sequences and shows that synchronic variation is common or even the norm in many cases. Investigating the factors which underlie this variation demonstrates the potential for a study of synchronic variation to illuminate a writing system's diachronic development; it also underlines the importance of analysing the ways in which writers actually choose to use writing systems in order to fully understand their development.
(published 2017 with R.J.E. Thompson and T. Meissner)