# Torsten Meissner 2024: A unified signary and acrophonic origins for Cretan Hieroglyphic signs (chapter 7 of Cretan Hieroglyphic)

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# A unified signary and acrophonic origins for Cretan Hieroglyphic signs (chapter 7 of Cretan Hieroglyphic)

Torsten Meissner, Ester Salgarella, 2024.

**Cretan Hieroglyphic** Chapter0

## What it's used for here

Chapter 7 of Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner (eds), Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cambridge University Press 2024, open access. Supports one signary covering seal and clay signs and proposes real-world referents from which some signs took their sound by acrophony (the first syllable of the name of the thing drawn), for example sign 42 / AB 08 (Linear B a) from a weapon word, and ko from a spindle; Donnelly's review notes that the weapon idea goes back to Buchholz. Chapter title here is descriptive.

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## Cite it

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Torsten Meissner, & Ester Salgarella (2024). A unified signary and acrophonic origins for Cretan Hieroglyphic signs (chapter 7 of Cretan Hieroglyphic). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490122
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