A king’s own son, named Mops (or Mucks?): about fantasy inscriptions, antique storytelling and name records between Pylos and Karatepe by Diether Schürr

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Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…The writing system of the Ancient Aegean Minoan Civilization, Linear A, is the predecessor to the already deciphered Linear B script (transcribing Mycenaean Greek) and is one of the five writing systems associated with mainland Greece, Crete, and Cyprus before the introduction of the Greek alphabet. …”
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A Great King at Mycenae. An Argument for the wanax as Great King and the lawagetas as vassal ruler. by Kelder, J

“…The argument in this article is twofold: first, it is argued that the view described above is essentially based on a circular argument, spawned from a desire to denounce the – in the 19th and early 20th century ruling – Homeric paradigm of Mycenaean Greek unity (to whatever extent). Second, this article argues that, whilst the modern view of Mycenaean political fragmentation is not necessarily flawed, a case in favour of a ‘unified Mycenaean world’ is at least equally persuasive. …”

A companion to the ancient Greek language / by Bakker, Egbert J.

Linear A and Minoan : some new old questions by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

“…The paper is structured as an agile literature review on Linear A, followed by a series of old and new methodological questions on this Aegean writing system, involving the possible connection with Ancient Greek (through Linear B, the script transcribing Mycenaean Greek and plausibly derived - partly - from Linear A), Semitic hypotheses, theoretical parallels with the Cuneiform writing system, the idea of a grammatological macro-comparison, and the possible improvement of computational approaches to the Linear A corpus.…”
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A drop of soul amidst the clay - cognitive aspects of Mycenaean archives and archival texts by Mann, MKE

“…The use of pre-structured patterns of knowledge that are reflected in the repetitive character of the texts enabled the Mycenaean scribes to use manifold abbreviations and still convey a vast amount of information. In the Mycenaean Greek texts, linguistic knowledge and world knowledge become inseparable. …”