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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.
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Citation and access

Data access level:

Creator/​Principal investigator(s):

Research principal:

Data contains personal data:

Yes

Type of personal data:

Personal names

Citation:

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Language:

Copyright:

Uppsala University Archives

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis:

Population:

Letters from Arne Furumark's preserved correspondence.

Sampling procedure:

Description of sampling:

The entire collection of letters have been scanned, sorted and published in Alvin. A majority of letters have also been transcribed. A small number of letters (19 p.) have not been included in the transcription work, due to the handwriting being too difficult to read, or due to unclear or unpersonal contents.

Time period(s) investigated:

Variables:

10

Number of individuals/​objects:

171

Data format/​data structure:

Data collection Recording

Mode of collection:

Recording

Description of the mode of collection:

The physical letters were scanned by the digitisation unit at the Uppsala University library.

Time period(s) for data collection:

2024-06 - 2024-08

Data collector:

Source of the data:

  • Communications: Interpersonal
  • Communications

Data collection Transcription

Mode of collection:

Transcription

Description of the mode of collection:

During the scanning process the letters were automatically transcribed, using OCR, and the transcriptions were then verified manually. The handwritten letters were transcribed manually.

Time period(s) for data collection:

2024-09 - 2024-12

Data collector:

Source of the data:

  • Communications: Interpersonal
  • Communications

Data collection Content coding

Mode of collection:

Content coding

Description of the mode of collection:

The collected, transcribed letters were coded in terms of date, content, origin, writer and receiver.

Time period(s) for data collection:

2024-09 - 2024-12

Data collector:

Source of the data:

  • Communications: Interpersonal
  • Communications

Administrative information

Responsible department/​unit:

Uppsala University Archive

URN:

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Funding

Funding agency:

  • Stiftelsen Harald och Tonny Hagendahls minnesfond

Award number:

802016-7105

Award title:

Arne Furumarks efterlämnade korrespondens

Funding agency:

  • Stiftelsen Gösta och Susi Enboms donationsfond

Award number:

802410-3999

Award title:

Furumark och Ventris - en vetenskapshistorisk korrespondens

Topic and keywords

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Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2025:

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