Terminus post quem
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| - | + | A '''''terminus post quem''''' ('limit after which', sometimes abbreviated '''TPQ''') and '''''terminus ante quem''''' ('limit before which', abbreviated '''TAQ''') specify the known limits of dating for events or items. | |
| - | '''Mycenaean Greek''' is the most ancient attested form of the [[Greek language]], spoken on the Greek mainland, [[Crete]] and [[Cyprus]] in the [[Mycenaean period|16th to 12th centuries BC]], before the hypothesised [[Dorian invasion]] which was often cited as the ''[[terminus post quem]]'' for the coming of the Greek language to Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in [[Linear B]], a script first attested on Crete before the 14th century BC. Most instances of these inscriptions are on clay tablets found in [[Knossos]] in central [[Crete]], and in [[Pylos]] in the southwest of the [[Peloponnese]]. Other tablets have been found at Mycenae itself, Tiryns and Thebes and at Chania in Western Crete. The language is named after [[Mycenae]], one of the major centres of [[Mycenaean Greece]]. | + | |
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| - | The tablets remained long undeciphered, and every conceivable language was suggested for them, until [[Michael Ventris]] deciphered the script in 1952 and by a preponderance of evidence proved the language to be an early form of Greek. | + | |
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| - | The texts on the tablets are mostly lists and inventories. No prose narrative survives, much less myth or poetry. Still, much may be glimpsed from these records about the people who produced them and about Mycenaean Greece, the period before the so-called [[Greek Dark Ages]]. | + | |
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| - | *[[Mycenaean Greece]] | + | * [[Interval (time)]] |
| - | *[[Greek language]] | + | * [[List of Latin phrases]] |
| + | * [[Relative dating]] | ||
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A terminus post quem ('limit after which', sometimes abbreviated TPQ) and terminus ante quem ('limit before which', abbreviated TAQ) specify the known limits of dating for events or items.
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