Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets
(Oxbow Books, 2020) brings together ten experts on ancient writing,
languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the
early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across
the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC.
By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on
alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as
an element of culture.
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Figure 5.3. Facsimile-drawing of the Azarbaʿal arrowhead (TSSI 3,1). Drawing by Reinhard Lehmann.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets
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8.8.b. Boustrophedon Cretan alphabetic inscription on a bronze mitra
(M1). New York Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org), Gift of Norbert
Schimmel Trust, 1989. Public Domain Image.
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8.3. Abecedarium written around the belly of an Etruscan
cockerel-shaped bucchero ware vase. New York Metropolitan Museum
(www.metmuseum.org), Fletcher Fund, 1924. Public Domain Image.This volume comprises the proceedings of a
conference held at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge on the 21 and
22 March 2017 as part of the Contexts of and Relations between Early
Writing Systems (CREWS) project, which aims to explore new and revisit
old ways of studying writing.
This project has received funding from the
European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677758).
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