INvention of SCRIpts and their BEginnings

Project Information

INSCRIBE

Grant agreement ID: 771127

DOI 10.3030/771127

EC signature date 7 June 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 463 337,00

EU contribution € 1 463 337,00

Coordinated by

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Numeracy at the dawn of writing: Mesopotamia and beyond

Author(s): Miguel Valério; Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Historia Mathematica, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 0315-0860
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.08.002

Rationalizing the Cretan Hieroglyphic signlist

Author(s): Barbara Montecchi; Silvia Ferrara; Miguel Valério
Published in: Kadmos, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 1613-0723
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/kadmos-2021-0003

Unsupervised deep learning supports reclassification of Bronze age cypriot writing system

Author(s): Fabio Tamburini; Michele Corazza; Miguel Valério; Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Plos One, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269544

The Relationship Between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: A Palaeographic and Structural Approach

Author(s): Ferrara, Silvia; Montecchi, Barbara; Valério, Miguel
Published in: Pasiphae, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1974-0565
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra
DOI: 10.19272/202233301006

Advanced techniques for the decipherment of ancient scripts

Author(s): Ferrara S., Tamburini F.
Published in: Lingue e Linguaggio, 2022, ISSN 1720-9331
Publisher: Il Mulino publishing house
DOI: 10.1418/105964

The mathematical values of fraction signs in the Linear A script: A computational, statistical and typological approach

Author(s): Michele Corazza, Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Fabio Tamburini, Miguel Valério
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, 2021, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105214

Rebus and acrophony in invented writing

Author(s): Miguel Valério, Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Writing Systems Research, Issue 11/1, 2019, Page(s) 66-93, ISSN 1758-6801
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1724239

3D HIGH-QUALITY MODELING OF SMALL AND COMPLEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSCRIBED OBJECTS: RELEVANT ISSUES AND PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

Author(s): L. Lastilla, R. Ravanelli, S. Ferrara
Published in: ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Issue XLII-2/W11, 2019, Page(s) 699-706, ISSN 2194-9034
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications)
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W11-699-2019

The Making of a Script: Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Quest for its Origins

Author(s): S. Ferrara, B. Montecchi, M. Valério
Published in: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2021, ISSN 0003-097X
Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research

3D MODELLING OF THE MAMARI TABLET FROM THE RONGORONGO CORPUS: ACQUISITION, PROCESSING ISSUES, AND OUTCOMES

Author(s): L. Lastilla, R. Ravanelli, M. Valério, S. Ferrara
Published in: ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Issue XLII-2/W18, 2019, Page(s) 85-89, ISSN 2194-9034
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications)
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W18-85-2019

Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals and Script : A View from the East

Author(s): Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Pasiphae, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1974-0565
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra
DOI: 10.19272/202233301007

Modelling the Rongorongo tablets: A new transcription of the Échancrée tablet and the foundation for decipherment attempts

Author(s): Lastilla Lorenzo; Roberta Ravanelli; Valério Miguel; Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Issue 3, 2021, ISSN 2055-7671
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqab045

The Rongorongo Tablet C: new technologies and conventional approaches to an undeciphered text

Author(s): Miguel Valério; Lorenzo Lastilla; Roberta Ravanelli
Published in: Lingue e Linguaggio, 2022, ISSN 1720-9331
Publisher: Il Mulino publishing house
DOI: 10.1418/105968

A high-resolution photogrammetric workflow based on focus stacking for the 3D modeling of small Aegean inscriptions

Author(s): Roberta Ravanelli, Lorenzo Lastilla, Silvia Ferrara
Published in: Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2022, ISSN 1296-2074
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2022.01.009

IN SEARCH OF LOST SIGNS: A NEW APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF WRITING AND NON-WRITING ON CRETAN HIEROGLYPHIC SEALS

Author(s): Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Miguel Valério
Published in: Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2023, ISSN 0262-5253
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12265

WHAT IS THE ‘ARCHANES FORMULA’? DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING THE EARLIEST ATTESTATION OF WRITING IN THE AEGEAN

Author(s): Silvia Ferrara; Barbara Montecchi; Miguel Valério
Published in: Annual of the British School at Athens, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 0068-2454
Publisher: British School at Athens
DOI: 10.1017/s0068245420000155

Other (1)

Viaggio alle origini della civiltà europea

Author(s): Silvia Ferrara
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Il Messaggero