Arne Furumark's correspondence

The Swedish professor of Classical archaeology Arne Furumark (1903–1982), spent most of his active career studying the Minoan and the Mycenean cultures on ancient Crete. Besides his archaeological work he was also interested in Linear A, the Minoan syllabic script. The digitized letter collection comprises Furumark’s collected letters från the 1950s, the era when the decipherment of Linear B was completed, and contains letters from several important 20th century philologists, such as John Chadwick (Cambridge), Massimo Pallottino (Rom), och Heinrich Chantraine (Mannheim). Furumark also had a habit of keeping copies of his own letters. The letters have been photo scanned and have been sorted with information about sender, recipient, location, date, and language (Swedish, English, German, French, Italian, Russian). Most of the letters have also been transcribed, with Linear A and Linear B signs inserted in unicode.