Anna P. Judson, The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B. Interpretation and Scribal Practices (Cambridge Classical Studies), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020, pp. v-xix + 352, ISBN 978-1-108-49472-4.

Linear B palaeography and scribal practices are the main topics of the book under review, The Undeciphered signs of Linear B. Interpretation and Scribal Practices by Anna P. Judson. The book is part of a current trend of studies on Bronze Age Aegean writings that focuses on palaeography on one hand and on deciphering on the other. Indeed, the book’s main goal is to propose a new methodology for determining possible sound-values for the undeciphered Linear B signs. The author also used the analysis of these fourteen signs as a case study to investigate the scribal practices of the Mycenaean scribes and to try to further clarify the administrative role of the scribes. Furthermore, the author used the undeciphered Linear B signs to test whether palaeography can actually be used to determine the relative chronology of the tablets. Therefore, the book addresses some of the major issues currently being debated, offering suggestions on questions still opened in Mycenaean philology and palaeography.