Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Research
My research focuses on the Linear B tablets from Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Greece; I am particularly interested in using these administrative documents to reconstruct the practices of the people who made and wrote on them. At the BSA I am working on a project entitled “WRiting At Pylos (WRAP): palaeography, tablet production, and the work of the Mycenaean scribes”, which combines an epigraphic study of the handwriting of the writers working at the site of Pylos, in southwestern mainland Greece, with experimental work on the methods by which the clay tablets were made. This project has received funding by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 885977.
Prior to joining the BSA I held a Research Fellowship in Classics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and was an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Publications
- Judson, A.P. 2020. The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices, Cambridge Classical Series (Cambridge University Press). cambridge.org/9781108494724
- Judson, A.P. 2020. Scribes as editors: tracking changes in the Linear B documents. American Journal of Archaeology4, pp.523-48. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0523; open access https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/310940
- Judson, A.P., J. Bennet, J.L. Davis, & S.R. Stocker. 2019. Two new Linear B tablets and an enigmatic find from Bronze Age Pylos (Palace of Nestor). Kadmos 58 (2019), pp.111-123. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2019-0006
- Judson, A.P. 2019. Orthographic variation as evidence for the development of the Linear B writing system. Written Language and Literacy 2: Writing systems: Past, present (… and future?), ed. T. Joyce & R. Crellin, pp.179-197. http://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00025.jud; open access accepted version: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30565
- Judson, A.P. 2017. The mystery of the Mycenaean “labyrinth”: the value of Linear B pu2 and related signs. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici Nuova Serie 3, pp.53-72. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30567
- Judson, A.P. 2017. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs. In P.M. Steele (ed.), Understanding Relations Between Scripts: the Aegean Writing Systems (Oxford: Oxbow Books), pp.111-26. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32145
- Judson, A.P. 2017. Palaeography, administration, and scribal training: a case-study. In Landenius Enegren & M.-L. Nosch (eds), Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, Incunabula Graeca CV.I-II (Roma: CNR-ISMA), pp.193-208. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30569
- Judson, A.P. 2017. The decipherment: people, process, challenges. In A. Christophilopoulou, Y. Galanakis, & J. Grime (eds), Codebreakers & Groundbreakers (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: catalogue of exhibition held Oct 2017-Feb 2018), pp.15-29. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30571
- Judson, A.P., Meißner & R.J.E. Thompson. 2016. CaLIBRA: Cambridge Linear B Research Archive (database of photographs; University of Cambridge). http://calibra.classics.cam.ac.uk
- Judson, A.P. 2013. The Linear B inscribed stirrup jars. Kadmos 52:1, pp.69-110. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30635