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.
This book is published with open access, and can be downloaded for free from this page, from our publications page or on the publisher’s website (where you need to add it to your basket but will not be charged).
Below you can choose to download individual chapters or the full text (or both!).
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).
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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