Understanding relations between scripts II : : early alphabets / / edited by Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford ;, Philadelphia : : Oxbow Books,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets / Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele ; 2. A {u02BD}top-downʼ re-invention of an old form: Cuneiform alphabets in context / Silvia Ferrara ; 3. Variation in alphabetic cuneiform: Rethinking the {u2018}Phoenician{u2019} 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! {u2013} 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 {u2018}western{u2019} 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 {u2013} the Umbrian perspective / Karin W. Tikkanen ; 11. Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts / Coline Ruiz Darasse.