The project

Portal for Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean (from the origins to the 6th century A.D.)

Mnamon provides information on the best and most useful material available on the web for the research and study of ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean: archives, research centers, bibliographies and teaching materials.

All information is selected and critically reviewed by specialists. A brief presentation of the characteristics, the places and times when documented and the languages that used each writing system are included.

Editing of the materials is carried out by individuals or small groups of specialists of each writing system, with regular seminars involving all the specialists.

Students, specialists and researchers will all find material of interest on the Portal.

We plan to add a comment and discussion area, moderated by specialists, where users can leave any comments to help us improve or update our information, and where researchers can meet and share information.

Credits

News

Workshop

2013-02-15
The Workshop on Translation and Bilingualism in Ancient Near Eastern texts will take place in Oxford, Wolfson College, from March 14th to 16th 2013. More information here.
(A.Santoni)

Book

2013-02-15
The first volume of the study by Silvia Ferrara on Cypro-Minoan has been published : Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions. Volume 1 : Analysis (Oxford 2012), on which see the BMCR review; the second volume presenting the corpus of texts is expected to be published in 2013.
(A.Cannavò)

Mnamon seminars section on YouTube

2013-01-30

A Mnamon seminars section has been created on the SNS YouTube channel where the videos of the latest two Mnamon seminars on Iberic and Umbrian writing systems have been loaded.
The address is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4eX8mtGxkAnx9QAv_9-6pg_3NW4ziNpD.
(A.Russo)

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