Understanding relations between scripts II : early alphabets / edited by Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, Philippa M., 1983- editor.

Boyes, Philip J., editor.

Series:

Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series)

Contexts of and relations between early writings systems ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing--History--To 1500.

Writing.

Alphabet--History--To 1500.

Alphabet.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets took place in March 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. This was the first of a programme of collaborative events organised as part of the project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS), which pursues interdisciplinary research into the development and context of writing around the Mediterranean and Levant in the second and first millennia BC. CREWS has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677758).

Contents:

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.

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789250954

1789250951

9781789250930

1789250935