Introduction; Chapter 1 The Advent of Literacy on Cyprus; 1.1 An Internal Approach; 1.2 Ancient Cyprus in the Early Late Bronze Age: The Archaeological Picture; 1.3 The Earliest Examples of Cypriot Writing; 1.4 The Epigraphy of Early Cypriot Inscriptions; 1.5 The Context of the Earliest Cypriot Writing; 1.6 External Influences on Cypriot Writing; Chapter 2 Scripts and Languages in Geometric Cyprus

2.1 A Period in Flux?2.2 Society in the Cypro-Geometric Period; 2.3 The Cypro-Geometric Epigraphic Record; 2.4 Epigraphic Analysis of the Syllabic Cypro-Geometric Inscriptions; 2.5 Epigraphic Culture and Continuity across the Cypro-Geometric Period; Chapter 3 'Understanding' Undeciphered Scripts and Unidentified Languages; 3.1 Inscriptions as Artefacts; 3.2 Cypro-Minoan; 3.3 Non-Greek Cypriot Syllabic Inscriptions; Chapter 4 Visible Languages and Cypriot Identities; 4.1 Language and Identity; 4.2 Evidence for Linguistic Diversity; 4.3 Bilingual Inscriptions

4.4 Language Contact and VisibilityChapter 5 Cypriot Writing at Home and Abroad; 5.1 Writing and Identity; 5.2 Cypriots Writing Abroad; 5.3 The Greek Alphabet in Cyprus; 5.4 Epilogue: Reflections of Writing in Ancient Cyprus; Bibliography; Index