Description
Book SynopsisWriting 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 symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas.
This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on
practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on
adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.
Trade Review[T]his volume, as a contribution to the research output of the CREWS project, encapsulates how the research of the CREWS core team and wider family has revolved around questions of the contexts and relatedness of writing systems and traditions * New Testament Abstracts *
Table of ContentsApproaches to writing in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Philippa M. Steele Relations between script, writing material and layout: the case of the Anatolian Hieroglyphs
Willemijn Waal Word division in Sicilian inscriptions
Robert Crellin What is an Alphabet good for?
Csaba La’da Measuring particularity and similarity in archaic Greek alphabets with NLP
Natalia Elvira Astoreca Borrowing, invention, remodelling: Observations on the rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet and the problem of formation of Anatolian alphabets
Rostislav Oreshko Cypro-Minoan and its potmarks and vessel inscriptions as challenges to Aegean Scripts corpora
Cassandra Donnelly Ductus in Cypro-Minoan writing. Definition, purpose and distribution of stroke types
Martina Polig The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Cyprus, a case study in material culture
Beatrice Pestarino The death of alphabets at the end of the Bronze Age. How does the Deir ‘Alla alphabet fit the picture?
Michel de Vreeze Early Egyptian writing from the perspective of the embodied practitioner
Kathryn Piquette The magic of writing
Philip J. Boyes
