The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part III: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete: Indices and glossary 1

Overall there is a great unity of evidence visible in all Minoan palatial centres, villas and farm-houses. The administrative clay tablets with Linear A inscriptions offer mainly lists of personal names, consisting of Hurrian 'sentence names' and so-called 'one-word' names comparable with those from Near-Eastern and Anatolian centres. It is significant that we find both 'Old Hurrian' names and 'Mitanni-Hurrian' names in the Minoan centres as in the Near East and Anatolia. The 'Old Hurrian' ...