Bronze Necklace with Linear A Script
SKU:
494
$80.00
$80.00
per item
I made this bronze pendant as a fragment of Linear A script and hung it from 1.5mm leather cord with a coiled bronze wire bail. The necklace and wire clasp are embellished with bone beads and with glass and aqua terra jasper beads that pick up the patina of the bronze. The pendant is 1 3/8" x 1 7/8", and the cord is 17" long including the clasp.
Linear A is the script for the unknown Minoan language, and dates from 1900-1800 BC. Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist, discovered clay tablets inscribed with two different scripts at Knossos in Crete in 1900. The other script, Linear B, which dates from approximately 1450 BC, was deciphered in 1952, and is known to have been used for an early form of Greek. The two scripts share some symbols, but using the corresponding sounds for Linear A does not produce any known language.
Linear A is the script for the unknown Minoan language, and dates from 1900-1800 BC. Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist, discovered clay tablets inscribed with two different scripts at Knossos in Crete in 1900. The other script, Linear B, which dates from approximately 1450 BC, was deciphered in 1952, and is known to have been used for an early form of Greek. The two scripts share some symbols, but using the corresponding sounds for Linear A does not produce any known language.