Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean -

Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean

Practices and Adaptations
Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2022
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-850-9 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean.
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 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.

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. 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.

Approaches 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Paläografie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-78925-850-2 / 1789258502
ISBN-13 978-1-78925-850-9 / 9781789258509
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