# Silvia Ferrara 2023: In Search of Lost Signs: A New Approach to the Issue of Writing and Non-Writing on Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals

> Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Miguel Valério, 2023. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 42(2), pp. 107 to 130.…

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# In Search of Lost Signs: A New Approach to the Issue of Writing and Non-Writing on Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals

Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Miguel Valério, 2023.

**Cretan Hieroglyphic** Articledoi: **[10.1111/ojoa.12265](https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12265)** 0

## What it's used for here

Oxford Journal of Archaeology 42(2), pp. 107 to 130. Re-examines the seal-only motifs that CHIC treated as decoration, using their distribution, position and association with recognised signs to argue that some are script signs excluded from the sign list. The main INSCRIBE statement on the seals-as-writing question; full text not retrieved in this session, details taken from the abstract and from Ferrara's 2024 survey chapter.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[The 2023 INSCRIBE study found that some motifs CHIC excluded occupy the positions and combinations of recognised signs…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB69NE02A/the-2023-inscribe-study-found-that-some-motifs-chic-excluded)

Evidence

EVD

[The clay-attestation rule excludes by construction any sign used only on seals, and has been rejected by Jasink…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB8AP5TPT/the-clay-attestation-rule-excludes-by-construction-any-sign)

Evidence

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

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

The mystery article

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[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)

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## Cite it

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Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, & Miguel Valério (2023). In Search of Lost Signs: A New Approach to the Issue of Writing and Non-Writing on Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals. https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12265
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12265)

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