| Description: |
AEGEAN, a font for ancient scripts in the greater Aegean vicinity
Aegean version 2 has been updated to cover the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.1: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.
Scripts and symbols as yet unsupported by Unicode, are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. Character and glyph repertoire in such cases follows major academic references as well as existing proposals. These scripts and symbols are: Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Ancient Greek Alphabets (Φοινικικά, Αρχαϊκά 8ου αιώνα, αριστερόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα, δεξιόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα, Θήρα – Κρήτη, Ἀττική, Μίλητος, Ἰωνία, Κόρινθος, Ἄργος, Βοιωτία – Χαλκίδα, Λακωνία, Ἀρκαδία, Εὔβοια, Νεότερα), Phrygian, Old Italic Alphabets (Cumaean, Archaic Etruscan, Neo Etruscan, Ancient Latin, Lugano, Faliscan, Marsiliana, Messapic, Middle Adriatic – South Picene, North Picene, Oscan, Umbrian), the Arkalochori Axe and Anatolian Hieroglyphs. There are, finally, many variant and extra glyphs in the Private Use Areas.
Scripts and Symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.1.0.
00000…0007F Basic Latin
00370…003FF Greek and Coptic
01F00…01FFF Greek Extended
10000…1005F Linear B Syllabary
10080…100FF Linear B Ideograms
10100…1013F Aegean Numbers
10140…1018F Ancient Greek Numerals
10190…101AF Ancient Symbols
101D0…101FF Phaistos Disc
10280…1029F Lycian
102A0…102DF Carian
10300…1032F Old Italic
10380…1039F Ugaritic
103A0…103DF Old Persian
10800…1083F Cypriot Syllabary
10900…1091F Phoenician
10920…1093F Lydian
1D200…1D24F Archaic Greek Musical Notation
Scripts and Symbols as yet unsupported by The Unicode Standard.
F0600…F089F Linear A
F2000…F21FF Cretan Hieroglyphs
FCA00…FCB8F Cypro-Minoan
FFA00…FFBFF Ancient Alphabets
FFF00…FFF0F Arkalochori Axe
F2800…F2AFF Anatolian Hieroglyphs
References:
• Detailed information on this font can be found in the document “Aegean.pdf”
• The Unicode Consortium. “The Unicode Standard, Version 5.1.0”, defined by: ‘The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0’ (Boston, MA, Addison-Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0-321-48091-0), as amended by Unicode 5.1.0
• «Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae», Jean-Pierre Olivier et Luis Godard avec Jean-Claude Poursat, École Française d’Athènes, Études Crétoises 31, De Boccard, Édition-Diffusion, Paris, 1996
• «Recueil des Inscriptions en Linéaire A», Luis Godard et Jean-Pierre Olivier, École Française d’Athènes, Études Crétoises XXI: volumes 1-5, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner (De Boccard, Édition-Diffusion), Paris, 1976-1985
• Arthur J. Evans, “Scripta Minoa, volume I”, The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes, Oxford, 1909
• Arthur J. Evans, “Scripta Minoa, volume II”, édité par J. Myres, Oxford, 1952
• Arthur J. Evans, “The palace of Minos at Knossos, volumes I-IV”, Oxford, 1921-1935.
• «Η ανάπτυξη της Μινωϊκής γραφής», στην ‹Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους› τόμος Α’, Εκδοτική Αθηνών, Αθήνα, 1970
• Luis Godart, «Ο δίσκος της Φαιστού: το αίνιγμα μιάς γραφής του Αιγαίου», φωτογραφίες Judith Lange, μετάφραση Κυριάκος Αξελός, Εκδόσεις Ιτανός, Αθήνα, 1995
• Luis Godart, “The Phaistos Disc: the enigma of an Aegean script”, photos by Judith Lange, translation by Alexandra Doumas, Editions Itanos, Athens, 1995, ISBN 960-7549-02-3
• Faucounau Jean, “The Cypro-Minoan Scripts. A Reappraisal” in ‘Archæologia Cypria’, T. III, 1994
• Masson Emilia, “Etudes de vingt-six boules d'argile inscrites trouvées à Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre)”, Studies In Mediterranean Archaeology, volume XXXI: ‘Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts’, part 1, Göteborg, Åströms Förlag, 1971, ISBN 91-85058-42-4
• Masson Emilia, «Cyprominoica. Répertoires, Documents de Ras Shamra, Essais d'interprétation», Studies In Mediterranean Archaeology, volume XXXI: ‘Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts’, part 2, Göteborg, Åströms Förlag, 1974, ISBN 91-85058-43-2
• Brixhe, C., Lejeune, M., «Corpus d’inscriptions paléo-phrygiennes», IFEA, Paris, 1984
• “Proposal to encode Anatolian Hieroglyphs in the SMP of the UCS”, http://std.dkuug.dk/ jtc1/sc2/wg2/ docs/n3236r.pdf
• “Proposal for encoding Anatolian Hieroglyphs in the UCS”, www.evertype.com/.../luvian.pdf
• “Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions: Inscriptions of the Iron Age”, Hawkins, John David, and Halet Çambel, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000
• “Result of Repertoire Review for FPDAM 3” of ISO/IEC 10646:2003, 2007-04-27 WG2/n3263.pdf, for Phaistos Disk, Lycian, Carian and Lydian
• “Result of Repertoire Review for PDAM 4” of ISO/IEC 10646:2003 and future amendments, 2007-09-28 WG2/n3348R.pdf, for Ancient (Roman) Symbols
• “Unibook™ Character Browser”, www.unicode.org/unibook; a useful utility for browsing large Unicode fonts; the Windows Registry may need updating to display higher planes
• “The Cretan Hieroglyphic Texts”, a web edition of the texts based on ‘Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae’ with commentary, by John Younger, http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/Hiero/
• “Linear A Texts”, in phonetic transcription, by John Younger, http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/ |