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        Date: 2025-07-17 06:42:03+00:00
        From: Gabriel Bodard <000076ab495b8a66-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
        Subject: Seminar: Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script

Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age
Aegean Script
Ester Salgarella (University of Aarhus)

18 July 2025, 17:00–18:15 BST
Senate House MakerSpace (room 265), Senate House, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HU

Register for in-person attendance:
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-it-see-it-say-it-digital-strategies-revive-a-
bronze-age-aegean-script
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-it-see-it-say-it-digital-strategies-revive-a-
bronze-age-aegean-script>

Join live online at: https://youtu.be/ykCEYh_I1A0
<https://youtu.be/ykCEYh_I1A0>

A Bronze Age script of the Aegean family, ‘Minoan’ Linear A (ca.
1800-1450 BCE) may not be known to many a reader, except by name.
Perusing the cumbersome, five-volume, old-fashioned corpus (GORILA), as
well as mastering the prior knowledge necessary to interpret Linear A
inscriptions still falls within the purview of specialists.
This paper aims to present three digital strategies I have been
developing to revive and enliven the kaleidoscopic nature of this script
and the objects it is attested on, and to disseminate its knowledge
beyond academia with a view to engaging a wider (educated, yet not
specialist) audience.

   *     Sort It – LAIF – Linear A Inscription Finder

How to sort (and sort out) Linear A inscriptions? LAIF (under
construction) is a digital catalogue of all extant Linear A
inscriptions, for ease of information retrieval, processing and
analysis, aimed at specialists and amateurs alike.

   *     See It – SigLA – The Signs of Linear A: A Palaeographical Database

Once sorted, where to see Linear A inscriptions? Open access, digital,
usable within and beyond academia, SigLA (2020) is a substantial
academic contribution to knowledge and a major public benefit. Like
never before, all users (specialists and not) can now see and engage
with interactive Linear A inscriptions (line-drawings by Salgarella),
and read signs and words by themselves.

   *     Say It – Aegean Connections

Once sorted and seen, what to say about the wider historical context in
which Linear A inscriptions were used? Growing public interest in Aegean
scripts, coupled with paucity of reliable open-access resources,
encouraged me to start a Podcast on Aegean Studies (2024-ongoing) to
bridge the gap between academics and the general audience.





--
Dr Gabriel BODARD (he/him)
Reader in Digital Classics
Director of Studies (research): Digital Humanities Research Hub
Director of Studies (research): Institute of Classical Studies



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