The Permanent International Committee for Mycenaean Studies, always known as the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes or CIPEM, even in English, acts as a standardising body for
Mycenaean studies and related disciplines, including
Linear A and
Cypriot epigraphy. It is an affiliate of
UNESCO
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. It also oversees the organisation of International Colloquia on Mycenaean Studies, which as of 2011 number thirteen. The thirteenth was held in
Paris
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in 2010, and the fourteenth will be held in
Copenhagen
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.
CIPEM was founded in 1956 to propagate the study of texts in
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...
, and was formerly known in English as the International Standing Committee for Mycenaean Studies. It is run by a committee that is headed by a Secretary-General. Professor
Marie-Louise Nosch was Secretary-General of the organization from 2010 to 2015.
References
External links
CIPEM's website including
history section
Mycenaean Greece
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