Illustrations Tables Charts Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Function, Object, and Context 1 Literacy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus 1.1 Introducing Writing on Cyprus 1.2 The History of Scholarship 1.3 Broadening the Picture: A Comprehensive Analysis 1.4 Geographical Distribution 1.5 Political Geography 1.6 Writing as Part of the Material Record 1.7 The Functions of the Inscribed Objects 1.

8 Script as Ideological Symbol 1.9 Cypro-Minoan as ex novo Creation 2. The Archaeological Setting: Writing in the LCI-LCIII Periods 2.1 Framing the Script in Time and Place 2.2 Distribution: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives 2.3 The MCIII-LCI Period 2.4 The Beginning of the LCII Period 2.5 The LCIIC Period 2.

6 The Script in the LCIIC Period 2.7 The LCIIC-LCIIIA Transition 3. Writing in LCIIIA: The Cypro-Minoan Floruit 3.1 The Clay Boules 3.2 The Geographical and Typological Diffusion of Writing in LCIIIA 3.3 The Cypro-Minoan Script at Ugarit 3.4 A Multi-Purpose Script Part II: Inscription and Signary 4. The Epigraphic Presentation of the Inscriptions 4.

1 Macro-Level Analysis: Problems of Classification 4.2 Typologies of Objects: Medium Variety 4.3 Techniques of Epigraphic Writing 4.4 Styles on Clay: Intra-Medium Variety 4.5 Manufacturing and Inscribing Tablets 4.6 Epigraphic and Sematographic Instability 4.7 Macro-Level Analysis: Cypriot Scribal Traditions 5. The Palaeography of the Cypro-Minoan Script 5.

1 The Signary 5.2 The Size of the Sign Repertoire 5.3 The Analysis of Sign Variations 5.4 A Critique of Linguistic Analyses 5.5 Cypro-Minoan as One Script Part III: Begord Decipherment 6. Cypro-Minoan and its Context 6.1 Contextualizing the History of Cypro-Minoan 6.2 Contextualizing the Archaeology of Cypro-Minoan 6.

3 Problems of Palaeography 6.4 Problems of Palaeographical Classification: The Role of Epigraphy 6.5 The Future of Cypro-Minoan Appendices References Index.