Paths into script formation in the ancient Mediterranean
edited by Silvia Ferrara and Miguel Valério.
Bok Engelsk 2018 · History.
| Omfang | 212 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps ;
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| Opplysninger | Preface / Anna Lucia D'Agata -- Introduction / Silivia Ferrara, Miguel Valério -- Image-bound scripts at the inception of writing. 1. The origins of Bronze Age Aegean writing: Linear A, Cretan hieroglyphic and a new proposed pathway of script formation / I. Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte -- 2. Hieroglyphic writing on old Hittite sels and sealings? Towards a material basis for further research / Mark Weeden -- Adaptations: between pictorialism and schematism. 3. The Byblos script / Juan Pablo Vita, José Ángel Zamora -- 4. Crypto-Minoan: an Aegean-derived syllabary on Cyprus (and elsewhere) / Miguel Valério -- 5. The Southwestern Paleo-Hispanic script: state of knowledge, hypotheses and controversies / Javier de Hoz -- 6. Local adaptations of the alphabet among the non-Greek peoples of Anatolia / Ignasi-Xavier Adiego -- 7. The Meroitic writing system: change and variation / Alex de Voogt -- Patterns and diversity: a world of possibilities. 8. Aztec hieroglyphic writing: a comparative perspective / Gordon Whittaker -- 9. The invention, transmission and evolution of writing: insights from the new scripts of West Africa / Piers Kelly.
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| Sjanger | History. : (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Geografisk emneord | Mediterranean Region - Antiquities. . - Mediterranean Region. : (OCoLC)fst01239752. - Mittelmeerraum. : (DE-588)4074900-9
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| ISBN | 8871408985. - 9788871408989
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