# Silvia Ferrara · Person

> Philologist (Bologna); INSCRIBE project, sign-list revision, co-editor of the 2024 volume. In Cretan Hieroglyphic.

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# Silvia Ferrara

Philologist (Bologna); INSCRIBE project, sign-list revision, co-editor of the 2024 volume

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[2 events][3 sources]

Silvia Ferrara is professor of Aegean civilisation at the University of Bologna and principal investigator of the ERC project INSCRIBE (2018 to 2024), which re-examined the Cretan Hieroglyphic sign list, the seal motifs and the relation to Linear A, and made 3D models of the documents., and appears in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic as philologist (Bologna); INSCRIBE project, sign-list revision, co-editor of the 2024 volume.

Two events on the site involve Ferrara, from Montecchi, Ferrara and Valério reduce the sign list from 144 to about 98 (2021) to Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner publish the first collective volume on the script (2024).

Three questions rest in part on what Ferrara did or said, among them “How is Cretan Hieroglyphic related to Linear A: parent, sister, or neither?”, which stands open: 2 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Cretan Hieroglyphic**

Philologist (Bologna); INSCRIBE project, sign-list revision, co-editor of the 2024 volume · 2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

[How is Cretan Hieroglyphic related to Linear A: parent, sister, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWYGYVMBZ/how-is-cretan-hieroglyphic-related-to-linear-a-parent-sister)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[How many distinct signs does the script have?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWVQEXEKE/how-many-distinct-signs-does-the-script-have)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[Which marks on the hieroglyphic seals are writing, and which are ornament?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWSVXAX3N/which-marks-on-the-hieroglyphic-seals-are-writing-and-which)Open: 3 answers, none ahead

## What Silvia Ferrara did 2

2021[Montecchi, Ferrara and Valério reduce the sign list from 144 to about 98](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDSMNYN27A/montecchi-ferrara-and-valerio-reduce-the-sign-list-from-144)

2024[Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner publish the first collective volume on the script](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDSWJRDPF0/civitillo-ferrara-and-meissner-publish-the-first-collective)

with [Anna Margherita Jasink](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRHWGB4SN/anna-margherita-jasink) · [John G. Younger](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRS9KPJB9/john-g-younger)

## Worked with 2

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**Anna Margherita Jasink**

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRHWGB4SN/anna-margherita-jasink)[JG

**John G. Younger**

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRS9KPJB9/john-g-younger)

## Sources 3

[Cretan Hieroglyphic: The Earliest Script on Crete. Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGNWHJN54/cretan-hieroglyphic-the-earliest-script-on-crete-semiotics)

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[Rationalizing the Cretan Hieroglyphic sign-list](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGSRMZC25/rationalizing-the-cretan-hieroglyphic-sign-list)

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[In Search of Lost Signs: A New Approach to the Issue of Writing and Non-Writing on Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGYPFMCBS/in-search-of-lost-signs-a-new-approach-to-the-issue-of)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Silvia Ferrara [Person FIG0DEDR9NY4C18]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDR9NY4C18
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INSCRIBE principal investigator, Co-editor of Cretan Hieroglyphic (2024)

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Professor of Aegean civilisation at the University of Bologna and principal investigator of the ERC project INSCRIBE (2018 to 2024), which re-examined the Cretan Hieroglyphic sign list, the seal motifs and the relation to Linear A, and made 3D models of the documents.

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