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OverviewContexts 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. AUTHOR: Philippa M. Steele is the Director of the CREWS Project, a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College. Having previously been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Evans Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, she has published widely on ancient languages and writing systems with a particular focus on Cyprus and the Aegean. Philip J. Boyes is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, working on the social context of writing at Ugarit as part of the CREWS project. He has previously worked on the archaeology of the East Mediterranean and Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philip J. Boyes , Philippa M. SteelePublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books Volume: Volume 1 ISBN: 9781789250923ISBN 10: 1789250927 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 31 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele 2. A 'top-down' 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 BibliographyReviews[The book] ranges expertly and thought-provokingly... -- Current World Archaeology Author InformationPhilip 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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