Associate Professor of Greek Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).Secrétaire Général du C.I.P.E.M. (Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes) (elected in 2021).Research field: Mycenology, Aegean Scripts.
Julián Méndez Dosuna; Thomas G. Palaima; Carlos Varias García (eds.), TA-U-RO-QO-RO. Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, Washington, pp. 231-241., 2022
This paper reexamines the Linear B terms ku-ne and qo-we on the Mycenae tablet Fu 711. A thorough... more This paper reexamines the Linear B terms ku-ne and qo-we on the Mycenae tablet Fu 711. A thorough analysis of the text of this tablet allows to conclude that MY Fu 711 records different kinds of supplies of agrarian products to individuals, and that ku-ne and qo-we are most probably two personal names in dative, namely /Kunei/ and /Gwōwei/.
Artículo virtual en catalán para la exposición de la Biblioteca de Humanidades de la Universitat ... more Artículo virtual en catalán para la exposición de la Biblioteca de Humanidades de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (octubre 2022) con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Michael Ventris y del 70º aniversario de su desciframiento de la escritura Lineal B, que anota el griego micénico.
J. de la Villa Polo et alii (eds.), Forum Classicorum. Perspectiva y avances sobre el Mundo Clásico, vol. I, Madrid, pp. 363-370, 2021
Mycenaean Greek, like Greek of the first millennium BC, has three numbers
well attested in the Li... more Mycenaean Greek, like Greek of the first millennium BC, has three numbers well attested in the Linear B texts: singular, plural, and dual. Nevertheless, both the shortcomings of the Mycenaean syllabary and the occasional spelling errors and inaccuracies often make impossible to recognize the number of some forms. The present contribution will focus on the expression of number in the Linear B inscriptions from Mycenae, which has been paid less attention than in the much larger corpora from Knossos and Pylos, in particular on the formal variations on tablet Au 102, a list or workmen, on the Ge series, whose texts refer to aromatic plants, on the Oe series, which records wool allocations to several people, and on tablet Ue 611, which records several kinds of vessels.
R. Pierini; A. Bernabé; M. Ercoles (eds.), THRONOS. Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond, Bologna, pp. 89-95., 2021
Analysis of the Mycenaean Greek term to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo (recorded on PY Fr 1222), which can be e... more Analysis of the Mycenaean Greek term to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo (recorded on PY Fr 1222), which can be either *θορνο-hελκτήριον ‘the festivity of the drawing of the throne’ or *θορνο-εγχετήριον ‘the festivity of pouring libations at/from the throne’. It refers to a ritual with the throne as a religious symbol of power, which has Hittite parallels.
L. Conti; R. Fornieles; Mª. D. Jiménez López; L. M. Macía; J. de la Villa (eds.), Δῶρα τά οἱ δίδομεν φιλέοντες. Homenaje al profesor Emilio Crespo, Madrid, pp. 313-320., 2020
In the footsteps of Morpurgo Davies (1998), who compared the personal names ending
in -i in Myce... more In the footsteps of Morpurgo Davies (1998), who compared the personal names ending
in -i in Mycenaean Greek to their equivalents in alphabetic Greek found in Attica and Arcadia, I have compared several formations of Mycenaean personal names attested in Mycenae and Thebes to their equivalents in Greek included in two volumes of LGPN (II: Attica, and III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia). A clear contrast between Mycenaean and first millennium Greek is observed in some formations with respect to their relative frequency.
J. Piquero; P. de Paz; S. Planchas (eds.), Nunc est Bacchandum. Homenaje a Alberto Bernabé, 2019
The possible evidence of a plot of land belonging to the rural community on the Linear B tablet M... more The possible evidence of a plot of land belonging to the rural community on the Linear B tablet MY Ue 652, the only recording land in Mycenae, is here considered, basing on the proposed equivalence of the term ko-na ‘common’ in this tablet to the phrase pa-ro da-mo ‘from the dāmos’, recorded on the PY Eb/Ep series. The two other Linear B evidence of ko-na, on tablets PY Ep 212.3 and TH X 105.1, are also discussed.
M.-L. Nosch; H. Landenius Enegren (eds.), Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, Volume I, Roma, pp. 417-427, 2017
Mycenaean studies on the ‘foreigner’ topic have appeared with different approaches since years ag... more Mycenaean studies on the ‘foreigner’ topic have appeared with different approaches since years ago. This paper re-examines contextually the meaning of each Linear B term which can contain the root of the Greek word /xenwos/: the adjective ke-se-nu-wi-ja, which appears in three tablets: KN Ld(1) 573.b, 574.b and 585.b, and its variant spelling ke-se-ne-wi-ja, recorded on KN Ld(1) 649.b, all of them in hand 116 and qualifying pa-we-a cloth; the adjective ke-se-ni-wi-jo, which occurs on the olive oil tablet PY Fr 1231.2, in hand 2; the personal name ke-se-nu-wo, appearing on the broken tablet PY Cn 286.1, in hand 1, which is included in a series recording cattle, and also two other problematic terms, often neglected in these studies: the form ]nu-wi-jo, on tablet PY Fr 1255, written by Class ii, which could be completed ke-se]nu-wi-jo (see lately Weilhartner), and the strange ze-ne-si-wi-jo, probably a personal name on tablet KN M(1) 720, in hand 103.
J. de la Villa et alii (eds.), Conventus Classicorum. Temas y formas del Mundo Clásico, Madrid, pp. 381-388, 2017
In this paper, I deal with the issue of the lexical variety in naming concepts and things, from a... more In this paper, I deal with the issue of the lexical variety in naming concepts and things, from a functional point of view, attested in the Linear B inscriptions. I do not enter here into the theoretical notion of synonym. I specifically analyse three groups of significant terms functionally equivalent in the Mycenaean records: 1) ko-wa/o ≈ tu-ka-te, i-jo, u-jo ≈ ki-ra ?: ‘daughter, son’; 2) pa-ro da-mo, da-mi-jo ≈ ko-na: ‘from the community’, y 3) tu-ro₂ ≈ *190 ?: ‘cheese’.
I. Hajnal; D. Kölligan; K. Zipser (eds.), Miscellanea Indogermanica. Festschrift für José Luis García Ramón zum 65. Geburtstag, Innsbruck, pp. 829-837, 2017
E. Redondo-Moyano; Mª. J. García Soler (eds.), Nuevas interpretaciones del Mundo Antiguo. Papers in Honor of Professor José Luis Melena on the Occasion of his Retirement, Vitoria, pp. 59-64, 2016
E. Borrell Vidal; P. Gómez Cardó (eds.), Omnia Mutantur. Canvi, transformació i pervivència en la cultura clàssica, en les seves llengües i en el seu llegat, vol. I, Barcelona, pp. 217-224, 2016
The most important Mycenaean goddess is po-ti-ni-ja = Πότνια, ‘Lady’. Many studies discuss whethe... more The most important Mycenaean goddess is po-ti-ni-ja = Πότνια, ‘Lady’. Many studies discuss whether po-ti-ni-ja is always a goddess or sometimes refers to a woman, and also whether she is always the same goddess. In this paper I summarise the features of the Mycenaean po-ti-ni-ja regarding these two issues, and I explain the changes from the Mycenaean word to the πότνια of the First Millennium BC.
Agalma Ofrenda Desde La Filologia Clasica a La Manuel Garcia Teijeiro 2014 Isbn 978 84 8448 790 6 Pags 329 336, 2014
The possibility that the Linear B term to-ko-do-mo = *τοιχοδόμοι(ς): “wall-builders” could be a d... more The possibility that the Linear B term to-ko-do-mo = *τοιχοδόμοι(ς): “wall-builders” could be a dative plural on line 11 of the new text PY An 7 + Fn 1427, edited by Melena after a join of two fragments (see Minos 31-32, 1996-1997, 171-176), is here discussed through an analysis of the internal arrangement of this tablet and the graphic features of its scribe, Hand 3 of Pylos. Without going into the general discussion about the dative plural of the o-stems in Mycenaean Greek, if the hypothesis that there is at least one form in –o for a thematic dative plural in Linear B were certain, this would involve that the two endings attested for this case in alphabetic Greek, i.e, -οισι and –οις, were be already in use in Mycenaean times for the same case, at least to the end of the period of the Linear B inscriptions (ca. 1200 BC).
P. Carlier et alii (eds.), Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens (Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010), Pisa-Roma, pp. 403-418, 2012
M.-L. Nosch; R. Laffineur (eds.), Kosmos. Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference, University Copenhagen, Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, 21-26 April 2010 (= Aegaeum 33), Leuven, p. 155-161, 2012
Julián Méndez Dosuna; Thomas G. Palaima; Carlos Varias García (eds.), TA-U-RO-QO-RO. Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, Washington, pp. 231-241., 2022
This paper reexamines the Linear B terms ku-ne and qo-we on the Mycenae tablet Fu 711. A thorough... more This paper reexamines the Linear B terms ku-ne and qo-we on the Mycenae tablet Fu 711. A thorough analysis of the text of this tablet allows to conclude that MY Fu 711 records different kinds of supplies of agrarian products to individuals, and that ku-ne and qo-we are most probably two personal names in dative, namely /Kunei/ and /Gwōwei/.
Artículo virtual en catalán para la exposición de la Biblioteca de Humanidades de la Universitat ... more Artículo virtual en catalán para la exposición de la Biblioteca de Humanidades de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (octubre 2022) con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Michael Ventris y del 70º aniversario de su desciframiento de la escritura Lineal B, que anota el griego micénico.
J. de la Villa Polo et alii (eds.), Forum Classicorum. Perspectiva y avances sobre el Mundo Clásico, vol. I, Madrid, pp. 363-370, 2021
Mycenaean Greek, like Greek of the first millennium BC, has three numbers
well attested in the Li... more Mycenaean Greek, like Greek of the first millennium BC, has three numbers well attested in the Linear B texts: singular, plural, and dual. Nevertheless, both the shortcomings of the Mycenaean syllabary and the occasional spelling errors and inaccuracies often make impossible to recognize the number of some forms. The present contribution will focus on the expression of number in the Linear B inscriptions from Mycenae, which has been paid less attention than in the much larger corpora from Knossos and Pylos, in particular on the formal variations on tablet Au 102, a list or workmen, on the Ge series, whose texts refer to aromatic plants, on the Oe series, which records wool allocations to several people, and on tablet Ue 611, which records several kinds of vessels.
R. Pierini; A. Bernabé; M. Ercoles (eds.), THRONOS. Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond, Bologna, pp. 89-95., 2021
Analysis of the Mycenaean Greek term to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo (recorded on PY Fr 1222), which can be e... more Analysis of the Mycenaean Greek term to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo (recorded on PY Fr 1222), which can be either *θορνο-hελκτήριον ‘the festivity of the drawing of the throne’ or *θορνο-εγχετήριον ‘the festivity of pouring libations at/from the throne’. It refers to a ritual with the throne as a religious symbol of power, which has Hittite parallels.
L. Conti; R. Fornieles; Mª. D. Jiménez López; L. M. Macía; J. de la Villa (eds.), Δῶρα τά οἱ δίδομεν φιλέοντες. Homenaje al profesor Emilio Crespo, Madrid, pp. 313-320., 2020
In the footsteps of Morpurgo Davies (1998), who compared the personal names ending
in -i in Myce... more In the footsteps of Morpurgo Davies (1998), who compared the personal names ending
in -i in Mycenaean Greek to their equivalents in alphabetic Greek found in Attica and Arcadia, I have compared several formations of Mycenaean personal names attested in Mycenae and Thebes to their equivalents in Greek included in two volumes of LGPN (II: Attica, and III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia). A clear contrast between Mycenaean and first millennium Greek is observed in some formations with respect to their relative frequency.
J. Piquero; P. de Paz; S. Planchas (eds.), Nunc est Bacchandum. Homenaje a Alberto Bernabé, 2019
The possible evidence of a plot of land belonging to the rural community on the Linear B tablet M... more The possible evidence of a plot of land belonging to the rural community on the Linear B tablet MY Ue 652, the only recording land in Mycenae, is here considered, basing on the proposed equivalence of the term ko-na ‘common’ in this tablet to the phrase pa-ro da-mo ‘from the dāmos’, recorded on the PY Eb/Ep series. The two other Linear B evidence of ko-na, on tablets PY Ep 212.3 and TH X 105.1, are also discussed.
M.-L. Nosch; H. Landenius Enegren (eds.), Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, Volume I, Roma, pp. 417-427, 2017
Mycenaean studies on the ‘foreigner’ topic have appeared with different approaches since years ag... more Mycenaean studies on the ‘foreigner’ topic have appeared with different approaches since years ago. This paper re-examines contextually the meaning of each Linear B term which can contain the root of the Greek word /xenwos/: the adjective ke-se-nu-wi-ja, which appears in three tablets: KN Ld(1) 573.b, 574.b and 585.b, and its variant spelling ke-se-ne-wi-ja, recorded on KN Ld(1) 649.b, all of them in hand 116 and qualifying pa-we-a cloth; the adjective ke-se-ni-wi-jo, which occurs on the olive oil tablet PY Fr 1231.2, in hand 2; the personal name ke-se-nu-wo, appearing on the broken tablet PY Cn 286.1, in hand 1, which is included in a series recording cattle, and also two other problematic terms, often neglected in these studies: the form ]nu-wi-jo, on tablet PY Fr 1255, written by Class ii, which could be completed ke-se]nu-wi-jo (see lately Weilhartner), and the strange ze-ne-si-wi-jo, probably a personal name on tablet KN M(1) 720, in hand 103.
J. de la Villa et alii (eds.), Conventus Classicorum. Temas y formas del Mundo Clásico, Madrid, pp. 381-388, 2017
In this paper, I deal with the issue of the lexical variety in naming concepts and things, from a... more In this paper, I deal with the issue of the lexical variety in naming concepts and things, from a functional point of view, attested in the Linear B inscriptions. I do not enter here into the theoretical notion of synonym. I specifically analyse three groups of significant terms functionally equivalent in the Mycenaean records: 1) ko-wa/o ≈ tu-ka-te, i-jo, u-jo ≈ ki-ra ?: ‘daughter, son’; 2) pa-ro da-mo, da-mi-jo ≈ ko-na: ‘from the community’, y 3) tu-ro₂ ≈ *190 ?: ‘cheese’.
I. Hajnal; D. Kölligan; K. Zipser (eds.), Miscellanea Indogermanica. Festschrift für José Luis García Ramón zum 65. Geburtstag, Innsbruck, pp. 829-837, 2017
E. Redondo-Moyano; Mª. J. García Soler (eds.), Nuevas interpretaciones del Mundo Antiguo. Papers in Honor of Professor José Luis Melena on the Occasion of his Retirement, Vitoria, pp. 59-64, 2016
E. Borrell Vidal; P. Gómez Cardó (eds.), Omnia Mutantur. Canvi, transformació i pervivència en la cultura clàssica, en les seves llengües i en el seu llegat, vol. I, Barcelona, pp. 217-224, 2016
The most important Mycenaean goddess is po-ti-ni-ja = Πότνια, ‘Lady’. Many studies discuss whethe... more The most important Mycenaean goddess is po-ti-ni-ja = Πότνια, ‘Lady’. Many studies discuss whether po-ti-ni-ja is always a goddess or sometimes refers to a woman, and also whether she is always the same goddess. In this paper I summarise the features of the Mycenaean po-ti-ni-ja regarding these two issues, and I explain the changes from the Mycenaean word to the πότνια of the First Millennium BC.
Agalma Ofrenda Desde La Filologia Clasica a La Manuel Garcia Teijeiro 2014 Isbn 978 84 8448 790 6 Pags 329 336, 2014
The possibility that the Linear B term to-ko-do-mo = *τοιχοδόμοι(ς): “wall-builders” could be a d... more The possibility that the Linear B term to-ko-do-mo = *τοιχοδόμοι(ς): “wall-builders” could be a dative plural on line 11 of the new text PY An 7 + Fn 1427, edited by Melena after a join of two fragments (see Minos 31-32, 1996-1997, 171-176), is here discussed through an analysis of the internal arrangement of this tablet and the graphic features of its scribe, Hand 3 of Pylos. Without going into the general discussion about the dative plural of the o-stems in Mycenaean Greek, if the hypothesis that there is at least one form in –o for a thematic dative plural in Linear B were certain, this would involve that the two endings attested for this case in alphabetic Greek, i.e, -οισι and –οις, were be already in use in Mycenaean times for the same case, at least to the end of the period of the Linear B inscriptions (ca. 1200 BC).
P. Carlier et alii (eds.), Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens (Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010), Pisa-Roma, pp. 403-418, 2012
M.-L. Nosch; R. Laffineur (eds.), Kosmos. Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference, University Copenhagen, Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, 21-26 April 2010 (= Aegaeum 33), Leuven, p. 155-161, 2012
JOSÉ LUIS MELENA JIMÉNEZ, is a peerless scholar of editing the texts written in the Mycenaean wri... more JOSÉ LUIS MELENA JIMÉNEZ, is a peerless scholar of editing the texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second millennium BCE and explicating their linguistic and "historical" contents. The twenty contributions in this volume take up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation markers and numbers in Linear B tablets and the values of specific signs, to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean society and the dialects spoken during the proto-Homeric period of the Late Bronze Age. New insights are offered into Mycenaean furniture, war chariots, land cultivation, arboriculture, and shrine areas.
A study of all the Linear B clay inscriptions from Mycenae (Greece), 65 tablets and 8 nodules dat... more A study of all the Linear B clay inscriptions from Mycenae (Greece), 65 tablets and 8 nodules dating between 1250-1200 BC., is undertaken beginning with the last edition of the texts (TITHEMY, Salamanca 1991), in order to best explain the workings of the Mycenaean Palace in the second half of the century XIII BC. The study is done using a method that combines philological and archaeological analyses, a new approach to the Mycenaean tablets, whose authors -fifteen or so scribes- were each one without exception circumscribed in one single find-spot, so that the texts of one hand are never found in more than one building. The fist four chapters analyse the workings of the four establishments where the majority of tablets and nodules were housed: 1/ House of the Oil Merchant (HOM): 31 tablets; 6 scribes. 2/ House of Sphinxes (HSph): 10 tablets and 7 nodules; 5 scribes. 3/ West House (WH): 12 tablets; 2 scribes. 4/ Citadel House (CH): 8 tablets and one nodule; 2 scribes. The four tablets appearing in isolated contexts have been analysed separately in chapter V. In the conclusions four important aspects of the documentation are undertaken: a) the palaeographical examination of the texts; b) the description of the language of the documents; c) a study of the personal names; d) the record-keeping system in Mycenae.
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well attested in the Linear B texts: singular, plural, and dual. Nevertheless, both the shortcomings of the Mycenaean syllabary and the occasional spelling errors and inaccuracies often make impossible to recognize the number of some forms. The present contribution will focus on the expression of number in the Linear B inscriptions from Mycenae, which has been paid less attention than in the much larger corpora from Knossos and Pylos, in particular on the formal variations on tablet Au 102, a list or workmen, on the Ge series, whose texts refer to aromatic plants, on the Oe series, which records wool allocations to several people, and on tablet Ue 611, which records several kinds of vessels.
symbol of power, which has Hittite parallels.
in -i in Mycenaean Greek to their equivalents in alphabetic Greek found in Attica and Arcadia, I have compared several formations of Mycenaean personal names attested in Mycenae and Thebes to their equivalents in Greek included in two volumes of LGPN (II: Attica, and III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia). A clear contrast between Mycenaean and first millennium Greek is observed in some formations with respect to their relative frequency.
well attested in the Linear B texts: singular, plural, and dual. Nevertheless, both the shortcomings of the Mycenaean syllabary and the occasional spelling errors and inaccuracies often make impossible to recognize the number of some forms. The present contribution will focus on the expression of number in the Linear B inscriptions from Mycenae, which has been paid less attention than in the much larger corpora from Knossos and Pylos, in particular on the formal variations on tablet Au 102, a list or workmen, on the Ge series, whose texts refer to aromatic plants, on the Oe series, which records wool allocations to several people, and on tablet Ue 611, which records several kinds of vessels.
symbol of power, which has Hittite parallels.
in -i in Mycenaean Greek to their equivalents in alphabetic Greek found in Attica and Arcadia, I have compared several formations of Mycenaean personal names attested in Mycenae and Thebes to their equivalents in Greek included in two volumes of LGPN (II: Attica, and III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia). A clear contrast between Mycenaean and first millennium Greek is observed in some formations with respect to their relative frequency.