Title Understanding relations between scripts II : early alphabets / edited by Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes.

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Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2020.

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Description	1 online resource (iv, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series	Contexts of and relations between early writing systems ; vol. 1
	Contexts of and relations between early writing systems ; v. 1.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2019).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction : issues in studying early alphabets -- A 'top-down' re-invention of an old form : Cuneiform alphabets in context -- Variation in alphabetic cuneiform : rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription from Sarepta -- Ancient Egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing -- Much ado about an implement! -- the Phoenicianising of early alphabetic -- Vowel representation in the archaic Greek and old Aramaic scripts : a comparative orthographic and phonological examination -- Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and its relation to the other 'western' alphabets -- The development of Greek alphabets : fluctuations and standardisations -- Between scripts and languages : inscribed intricacies from geometric and archaic Greek contexts -- The matter of voice -- the Umbrian perspective -- Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts.
Subject	Alphabet -- History -- To 1500.
	Writing -- History -- To 1500.
	HISTORY / Ancient / General.
	Alphabet. (OCoLC)fst00805945
	Writing. (OCoLC)fst01181638
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Steele, Philippa M., 1983- editor.
	Boyes, Philip J. (Philip John), editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Understanding relations between scripts II. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2019 9781789250923 (OCoLC)1108692229
ISBN	9781789250930 (electronic book)
	1789250935 (electronic book)
	9781789250954 (electronic book)
	1789250951 (electronic book)

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