Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Philip Boyes is a research associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. As part of the CREWS Project, he works on the social context of writing at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. He has previously worked on the archaeology of the East Mediterranean and Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Philippa M. Steele is the Director of the CREWS Project, a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College. She has previously been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Evans Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, followed by a European Research Council grant to run the CREWS Project, and has published widely on ancient languages and writing systems with a particular focus on Cyprus and the Aegean.

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1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets

Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele

2. A ʽtop-downʼ 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

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