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.

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Information

Publisher

Oxbow Books

Year

2022

ISBN

9781789258516

Topic

History

Subtopic

Ancient History

Index

History

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: approaches to the study of writing, and the development of the CREWS project
2. What is an alphabet good for?
3. The ‘death’ of alphabets at the end of the Bronze Age: how does the Deir ʿAlla alphabet fit the picture?
4. Cypro-Minoan and its potmarks and vessel inscriptions as challenges to Aegean Scripts corpora
5. Ductus in Cypro-Minoan writing: definition, purpose and distribution of stroke types
6. The magic of writing in the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean
7. Relations between script, writing material and layout: the case of the Anatolian Hieroglyphs
8. The rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet revisited
9. Measuring particularity and similarity in Archaic Greek alphabets with NLP
10. The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Cyprus: a case study in material culture
11. Word-level punctuation in Latin and Greek inscriptions from Sicily of the Imperial period
12. Speculative Syllabic
Bibliography