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AEGEAN LITERACY AND ITS PRE-GREEK ORIGIN

Summary
The paper deals with some essential issues of the structure and
origins of the Aegean literacy, which is in modern scholarship
known only by its youngest Grecian phase from the middle of
the second millennium B.C.
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