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Understanding Relations Between Scripts
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Author : Philippa Steele
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2017-08-31
Understanding Relations Between Scripts written by Philippa Steele and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with History categories.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts Ii
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Author : Philippa M. Steele
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Understanding Relations Between Scripts Ii written by Philippa M. Steele and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with History categories.
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.
The Social And Cultural Contexts Of Historic Writing Practices
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Author : Philip J. Boyes
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-03-23
The Social And Cultural Contexts Of Historic Writing Practices written by Philip J. Boyes and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Social Science categories.
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.
Writing From Invention To Decipherment
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Author : Silvia Ferrara
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-08-27
Writing From Invention To Decipherment written by Silvia Ferrara and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with History categories.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the potential decipherment of poorly understood scripts. The volume offers state-of-the-art research on undeciphered scripts from the Aegean (as for example, Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A) or not completely deciphered (as for example Maya) scripts. From a methodological perspective, these contributions lay out how and why writing was invented, who used it, and to what ends. Here writing is presented as a multi-modal cultural phenomenon, that intersects and transcends neat discipline boundaries, within an inclusive approach bridging archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and cognitive studies.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
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Author : Philippa M. Steele
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2017
Understanding Relations Between Scripts written by Philippa M. Steele and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan categories.
Aegean Linear Script S
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Author : Ester Salgarella
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10
Aegean Linear Script S written by Ester Salgarella and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Script And Society
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Author : Philip J. Boyes
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-03-15
Script And Society written by Philip J. Boyes and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-15 with Social Science categories.
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Philippa M. Steele
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean written by Philippa M. Steele and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with History categories.
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 presents a group of papers 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. They focus 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.
Non Scribal Communication Media In The Bronze Age Aegean And Surrounding Areas
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Author : Anna Margherita Jasink
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-08
Non Scribal Communication Media In The Bronze Age Aegean And Surrounding Areas written by Anna Margherita Jasink and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-08 with Religion categories.
This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate societies of the ancient Aegean. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with non-scribal operations conducted by people of the ‘middling’ sort. Who made these marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks.
The Semantics Of Word Division In Northwest Semitic Writing Systems
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Author : Robert S.D. Crellin
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2022-02-03
The Semantics Of Word Division In Northwest Semitic Writing Systems written by Robert S.D. Crellin and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Much focus in research on alphabetic writing systems has been on correspondences between graphemes and phonemes. The present study sets out to complement these by examining the linguistic denotation of markers of word division in several ancient Northwest Semitic (NWS) writing systems, namely, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Moabite, and Hebrew, as well as alphabetic Greek. While in Modern European languages words on the page are separated on the basis of morphosyntax, I argue that in most NWS writing systems words are divided on the basis of prosody: ‘words’ are units which must be pronounced together with a single primary accent or stress, or as a single phrase. After an introduction providing the necessary theoretical groundwork, Part I considers word division in Phoenician inscriptions. I show that word division at the levels of both the prosodic word and of the prosodic phrase may be found in Phoenician, and that the distributions match those of prosodic words and prosodic phrases in Tiberian Hebrew. The latter is a source where, unlike the rest of the material considered, the prosody is well represented. In Part II, word division in Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform is analyzed. Here two-word division strategies are identified, corresponding broadly to two genres of text: viz, literary, and administrative documents. Word division in the orthography of literary and of some other texts separates prosodic words. By contrast, in many administrative (and some other) documents, words are separated on the basis of morphosyntax, anticipating later word division strategies in Europe by several centuries. Part III considers word division in the consonantal text of the Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Here word division is found to mark out ‘minimal prosodic words’. I show that this word division orthography is also found in early Moabite and Hebrew inscriptions. Word division in alphabetic Greek inscriptions is the topic of Part IV. Whilst it is agreed that word division marks out prosodic words, the precise relationship of these units to the pitch accent and the rhythm of the language is not so clear, and consequently this issue is addressed in detail. Finally, the Epilogue considers the societal context of word division in each of the writing systems examined, to attempt to discern the rationales for the prosodic word division strategies adopted. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.