Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean

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