How To Use Minoan In A Sentence
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The range of elemental compositions displayed by individual glass shards combined with the consistency of many trace element ratios are characteristics of the Minoan glass.
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As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Zominthos is a charming place where all the features of Minoan archaeology are amalgamated, which is why we need to be careful as we excavate, not to miss any piece that could be added to the puzzle of the archaeology of the mountains.
Picture 40 « Daily Life « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project
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Many ancient Greek myths take their location from Minoan Crete more than ten centuries before Plato. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was supposedly the architect of the palace at Knossos.
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If there are no voicing contrasts in Minoan stops, then it seems to me that the likeliest value for d is something more like an unaspirated affricate: /tʃ/.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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In HT 16.1-2, the phrase ka-ku-pa • di-na-u, especially if approached from the assumption that Minoan is related to Etruscan, seems to show a noun followed by a participial adjective in -(a)u (nb. the Etruscan participle ending -u as in tur-u 'given') in much the same way as adjectives are placed after commodity terms in Mycenaean.
Archive 2009-12-01
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As the Greek language does have a perfect 'Z' sound (and always had), the development -i-za -issa is only likely if the Minoan sign was an affricate (*ts), that the Greek rendered to a stressed 'S'.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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This is, at least, one way of explaining an otherwise very peculiar aspect of Minoan religion - the daemons.
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Some themes are adopted from the Minoan repertoire - ladies in gaily coloured flounced skirts, acrobatic bull leapers - though they tend to be more stiffly drawn and lack the grace and spontaneity so characteristic of Minoan art.
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Hartely et al. found that 1,5-and 1,8 - disubstituted aminoanthraquinones are phototoxic to human leukemic cells.
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In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
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This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics.
Archive 2010-07-01
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The exhibition catalog notes that "the sistra constitute undeniable evidence for a strong relationship between Crete and Egypt and of the influences exerted by Egypt on Minoan civilization.
Minoans in Manhattan
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I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.
Archive 2010-03-01
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This Minoan seal is lentoid, which describes its shape when viewed in profile.
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There are occasionally good discussions about our many undeciphered scripts Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphics, Cypro-Minoan, not to mention the Phaistos Disk and other fun scraps.
An Ancient Egyptian boardgame to appease readers
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Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery).
Minoans in Manhattan
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In a Minoan house they found these whole vases, cracked from the volcanic pumice and ash.
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One such volcano-induced landslide occurred thousands of years ago in the Greek islands, causing the Minoan civilization to be wiped from the map.
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A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus, treated in various decorative ways: but the papyrus did not, as far as we know, grow in Crete in the Minoan period, so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landspace.
The myth of the secular
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the Minoan palace at Knossos
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The art of the Minoan seal cutters, like other aspects of the culture, was falling gradually into decay.
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What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
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A bicipital axe was a cultic physical object of the Minoan civilisation.
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What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
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A colossal tsunami destroyed the minoan civilization in minutes.
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At this time the agricultural techniques and crafts seen in the Early Minoan period were developed further.
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This sign is also found in the Minoan and Mycenaen civilizations.
Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Close by, warm and gritty to the touch, were great storage jars of golden baked clay, Ali Baba-shaped and covered with Minoan decorations.
THE QUEST FOR K
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The tablets reveal the Minoans as lovers of minutely recorded detail; their labyrinthine architecture reveals a love of complexity and puzzles.
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It may have wiped out the Minoan civilization in Crete.
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As one archaeologist has recently ” and crassly ” put it, Evans's Minoans were "travelling and trading all over the Mediterranean, thanks to their British (sorry, Minoan) ˜thalassocracy. '" [
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
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What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
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Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin, and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.
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If it's true that the name of the kithara is ultimately from a Minoan compound meaning 'three-stringed' and containing the element *ki 'three' see Paleoglot: The kithara, then it stands to reason that the similar name, kinnor, is probably likewise Minoan in origin and containing the same petrified numeral with a different second component.
Archive 2010-08-01
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What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
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the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined
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Furthermore given all appearances, Linear A was most likely made for Minoan and the rules of the script would simply be too unnatural if Minoan did not have highly restricted phonotactics to begin with.
Linear A treatment of consonant clusters
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No one would take it amiss if he found the Minoan Palace irresistibly romantic.
THE QUEST FOR K
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During the middle Minoan period, urbanism became apparent, towns appeared, and the great palaces were built.
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From there, *Kʰaputar 'The Summits'? would become the word for the entire Minoan region, perhaps in connection to the Horns of Consecration, a very sacred and prominent symbol undoubtedly related to the Egyptian aker symbol representing the sun both emerging from and setting into the two horizons.
A thought on the real name for the land of the Minoans
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Among them were symbols that I recognized, such as an Egyptian ankh and a Minoan labrys.
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This is because of what I've encountered as valid sound sequences and syllable shapes in more certain Minoan etyma and because of comparison with Etruscan, Rhaetic and Lemnian.
Death and daffodils
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From the same tomb comes a composite Helladic-Minoan silver goblet, with its carinated shape and a Minoan niello floral scene.
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Etruscan, Lemnian, Minoan, etc. and with some even denying that such a group exists, etymologists don't seem to be getting very far here.
The hidden face
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If related to Etrusco-Lemnian languages, I'd expect Minoan would have a possible, hidden aspiration contrast in stops as well as some affricates if the Linear A d-series is related to common Etrusco-Lemnian affricate *z.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
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Many ancient Greek myths take their location from Minoan Crete more than ten centuries before Plato. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was supposedly the architect of the palace at Knossos.
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Now, considering the post you linked to regarding the potential phonetic realization of Minoan "d" and "z": would that man that "z" as a fricative is a "th" sound?
A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
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Kotzamani's therianthropic figures suggest the richness of many ancient traditions that stretch from dynastic Egyptian and pre-Classical Greek to Minoan art.
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I realize I sound like a complete and utter neophyte, but I'm quite curious about this potential onomastic connection to Minoan Crete.
Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent
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It is often said, for example, that Evans was interpreting Minoan civilization and the basis of its power in the early second millennium BC according to the model of the British Empire: the Minoan control of the sea ( "thalassocracy") was a reflection of the power of the British navy.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
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In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
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I've been suggesting since then that it originally came from a Minoan compound *Ki-Amária meaning literally 'Three-Face' which subsequently, following the traditional etymology usually given, the name would have been corrupted by native Greek words χίμαρος 'he-goat' and χεῖμα 'winter' after being loaned from the Minoan language.
Archive 2010-08-01
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If related to Etrusco-Lemnian languages, I'd expect Minoan would have a possible, hidden aspiration contrast in stops as well as some affricates if the Linear A d-series is related to common Etrusco-Lemnian affricate *z.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
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On the Minoan Language blog, Andras Zeke counters my entry against a prefix *i- in Minoan with a new idea that the morpheme in question was a separate deictic instead.
Archive 2010-02-01
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In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
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At one point, design notes hint of the possibility of the Kaminoans being luminescent, though that was never firmly established.
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For Evans, the Minoans were emphatically not pure Greek, and he would have been irritated to learn that the "Linear B" tablets, which he excavated at Knossos (and which remained undeciphered in his lifetime), were actually written in an early form of the Greek language.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
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She wasn't hungry enough for a hotel lunch and had no intention of joining the afternoon excursion to the Minoan Palace of Knossos.
THE QUEST FOR K
