Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 6 : Mediterranean Practices and Adaptations Volume 6 :
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books
2022.
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| Colección: | Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720363706719 |
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- List of contributors .v
- Acknowledgements vi
- 1. Introduction: approaches to the study of writing, and the development of the CREWS project 1
- 2. What is an alphabet good for? 9
- 3. The 'death' of alphabets at the end of the Bronze Age: how does the Deir ʿAlla alphabet fit the picture? .23
- 4. Cypro-Minoan and its potmarks and vessel inscriptions as challenges to Aegean Scripts corpora 49
- 5. Ductus in Cypro-Minoan writing: definition, purpose and distribution
- of stroke types 75
- 6. The magic of writing in the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean 99
- 7. Relations between script, writing material and layout: the case of
- the Anatolian Hieroglyphs .121
- 8. The rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet revisited 145
- 9. Measuring particularity and similarity in Archaic Greek alphabets with NLP 167
- 10. The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Cyprus: a case study
- in material culture 181
- 11. Word-level punctuation in Latin and Greek inscriptions from Sicily of the Imperial period 195
- 12. Speculative Syllabic .221
- Bibliography .243.
