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Dr Philippa Steele

Dr Philippa Steele is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, and holds a research fellowship at Magdalene College. She is also Director of Studies in Classics at Homerton College (Part II, 2012-13) and will be taking over at Wolfson College (from 2013), and is an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Classics (primarily in classical linguistics).

In 2013-14 she will act as the Evans-Pritchard Lecturer at All Souls College, Oxford, giving a series of public lectures on ‘Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus’.

Contact
Magdalene College
Cambridge CB3 0AG
Email: pms45@cam.ac.uk

Select Publications

A Linguistic History of Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600-300 BC, Cambridge, forthcoming.

As editor: Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context, Cambridge 2012.

'Evidence for multilingualism in ancient Cyprus, from the late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period', in preparation for the Cambridge Classical Journal (arising from paper presented to the Cambridge Philological Society).

'The /d/, /t/, /l/ and /r/ series in Linear A and B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary', forthcoming in Pasiphae 6 (invited contribution).

'The Diversity of the Cypro-Minoan Corpus', in Carlier, P. et al. (eds.) Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens, Pisa-Rome 2012, 537-544.

''Legality' and Mycenaean Scribes' in Kyriakidis, E. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Colloquium “The Inner Workings of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy”, University of Kent, Canterbury, 19-21 September 2008, Pasiphae 5, Pisa-Rome 2011, 119-26.

'Eteocypriot: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence', in Georgiou, A. (ed.), Cyprus: an island culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period, Oxford 2011, 122-32.

''Gaps' in Literacy: Social responses to economic crisis in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean', Archaeological Review from Cambridge 2011, 53-63.

With Markus Egetmeyer (Chair of Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne): 'A New Archaic and Possibly Cypriot Inscription from Cilicia', Kadmos 49 2010, 127-32.

'Methodology in Mycenaean Prosopography: The Use of Names as Evidence', Kadmos 48 2009, 93-106.

'A Comparative Look at Mycenaean and Near Eastern Bureaucracies: 'Bilateral' Documentation in the Linear B Archives?', Kadmos 47 2008, 31-49.

Current research interests

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship research on ‘The History of the Greek Language in the Eastern Mediterranean During the First Millennium BC’.

Other interests include: the scripts and languages of ancient Cyprus; the Aegean linear scripts; the ancient Greek language; dialectology; multilingualism and language contact; script use and administration in the Mycenaean world; epigraphy and palaeography; the interdisciplinary study of ancient populations; island studies.