Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
Early Alphabets
Published on 31. October 2019
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-78925-092-3 (ISBN)
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Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing 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.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing 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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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
695 gr
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978-1-78925-092-3 (9781789250923)
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Early Alphabets
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Philip Boyes is a research associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. As part of the CREWS Project, he works on the social context of writing at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. He has previously worked on the archaeology of the East Mediterranean and Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Philippa M. Steele is the Director of the CREWS Project, a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College. She has previously been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Evans Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, followed by a European Research Council grant to run the CREWS Project, and has published widely on ancient languages and writing systems with a particular focus on Cyprus and the Aegean.
Content
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets
Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele
2. A ?top-down? re-invention of an old form: Cuneiform alphabets in context
Silvia Ferrara
3. Variation in alphabetic cuneiform: Rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription
from Sarepta
Philip J. Boyes
4. Ancient Egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing
Ben Haring
5. Much ado about an implement! - the Phoenicianising of Early Alphabetic
Reinhard G. Lehmann
6. Vowel representation in the Archaic Greek and Old Aramaic scripts:
A comparative orthographic and phonological examination
Roger D. Woodard
7. Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and
its relation to the other 'western' alphabets
Willemijn Waal
8. The development of Greek alphabets: Fluctuations and standardisations
Philippa M. Steele
9. Between scripts and languages: Inscribed intricacies from geometric and
archaic Greek contexts
Giorgos Bourogiannis
10. The matter of voice - the Umbrian perspective
Karin W. Tikkanen
11. Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts
Coline Ruiz Darasse
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets
Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele
2. A ?top-down? re-invention of an old form: Cuneiform alphabets in context
Silvia Ferrara
3. Variation in alphabetic cuneiform: Rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription
from Sarepta
Philip J. Boyes
4. Ancient Egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing
Ben Haring
5. Much ado about an implement! - the Phoenicianising of Early Alphabetic
Reinhard G. Lehmann
6. Vowel representation in the Archaic Greek and Old Aramaic scripts:
A comparative orthographic and phonological examination
Roger D. Woodard
7. Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and
its relation to the other 'western' alphabets
Willemijn Waal
8. The development of Greek alphabets: Fluctuations and standardisations
Philippa M. Steele
9. Between scripts and languages: Inscribed intricacies from geometric and
archaic Greek contexts
Giorgos Bourogiannis
10. The matter of voice - the Umbrian perspective
Karin W. Tikkanen
11. Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts
Coline Ruiz Darasse
Bibliography