# Anna Margherita Jasink · Person

> Aegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database. In Cretan Hieroglyphic.

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# Anna Margherita Jasink

Aegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[1 event][3 sources]

Anna Margherita Jasink is professor at the University of Florence whose 2009 book reclassified the seal inscriptions and restored excluded motifs as candidate signs, and who built the DBAS-CHS seal database; with Judith Weingarten in 2024 she argued the seals were ornaments naming their owners., and appears in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic as aegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database.

One event on the site involves Jasink: Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner publish the first collective volume on the script (2024).

Four questions rest in part on what Jasink did or said, among them “How many distinct signs does the script have?”, which stands open: 2 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Cretan Hieroglyphic**

Aegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database · 1 event

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

[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

[Is the Archanes script of the late Prepalatial seals the first stage of Cretan Hieroglyphic, or a separate script?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX0QKA1JC/is-the-archanes-script-of-the-late-prepalatial-seals-the)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[What did the clay documents and the seal inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX1A1NMX2/what-did-the-clay-documents-and-the-seal-inscriptions-record)Open: no answer ahead yet

[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 Anna Margherita Jasink did 1

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 [Silvia Ferrara](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDR9NY4C18/silvia-ferrara) · [John G. Younger](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRS9KPJB9/john-g-younger)

## Worked with 2

[SF

**Silvia Ferrara**

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDR9NY4C18/silvia-ferrara)[JG

**John G. Younger**

Cretan Hieroglyphic

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

## Sources 3

[Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals: A New Classification of Symbols and Ornamental/Filling Motifs](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ3W6CMA4/cretan-hieroglyphic-seals-a-new-classification-of-symbols)

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[DBAS-CHS: Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals database](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKB8XRZ46/dbas-chs-cretan-hieroglyphic-seals-database)

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[Seals as luxury ornaments and the Archanes script (chapter 4 of Cretan Hieroglyphic)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM2ZPTMFX/seals-as-luxury-ornaments-and-the-archanes-script-chapter-4)

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Author of Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals (2009), Builder of DBAS-CHS

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Professor at the University of Florence whose 2009 book reclassified the seal inscriptions and restored excluded motifs as candidate signs, and who built the DBAS-CHS seal database; with Judith Weingarten in 2024 she argued the seals were ornaments naming their owners.

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