Understanding relations between scripts II early alphabets

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steele, Philippa M. (Editor), Boyes, Philip J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxbow Books 2020, 2020
Series:Contexts of and relations between early writing systems
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : issues in studying early alphabets
  • A 'top-down' re-invention of an old form : Cuneiform alphabets in context
  • Variation in alphabetic cuneiform : rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription from Sarepta
  • Ancient Egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing
  • Much ado about an implement!
  • the Phoenicianising of early alphabetic
  • Vowel representation in the archaic Greek and old Aramaic scripts : a comparative orthographic and phonological examination
  • Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and its relation to the other 'western' alphabets
  • The development of Greek alphabets : fluctuations and standardisations
  • Between scripts and languages : inscribed intricacies from geometric and archaic Greek contexts
  • The matter of voice
  • the Umbrian perspective
  • Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts
  • Includes bibliographical references