Volume I - 1947

Author Category Volume Page Year Language Platon N. BOOK REVIEWS 1 450 - 452 1947 Greek Title Const. Dem. Ktistopoulos, A contribution to the problem of the Minoan script, Athens 1945 Summary PDF Presentation of two studies by Constantinos Ktistopoulos on the Minoan script and language. Credit is given to the author’s attempt to exploit the potential offered by comparative study of Minoan signs with those in the Cypriot syllabary and the alphabets of Egypt, Phoenicia and Greece. However, the association drawn between certain sign groups and place or personal names that are only ostensibly pre-Hellenic is criticized as unsound. This methodological error is compounded in the second study, where appellatives drawn from the languages of ancient lexicographers and the lexicon of certain Oriental languages are included in the interpretive material. However, positive comment is made on certain observations regarding word morphology and the interrelations between Cretan writing systems and the script of mainland Greece.