LEADER 03282nam 2200421 450 001 9910645996103321 005 20230627113504.0 035 $a(CKB)5670000000613371 035 $a(NjHacI)995670000000613371 035 $a(ScCtBLL)538289f7-0248-48ff-aac3-3bdfecfecb8b 035 $a(EXLCZ)995670000000613371 100 $a20230330d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting Around the Ancient Mediterranean$hVolume 6 $eMediterranean Practices and Adaptations /$fPhilippa M. Steele 210 1$aOxford :$cOxbow Books,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (iv, 266 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aContexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) 311 $a1-78925-852-9 327 $aList of contributors .v -- Acknowledgements vi -- 1. Introduction: approaches to the study of writing, and the development of the CREWS project 1 -- 2. What is an alphabet good for? 9 -- 3. The 'death' of alphabets at the end of the Bronze Age: how does the Deir ?Alla alphabet fit the picture? .23 -- 4. Cypro-Minoan and its potmarks and vessel inscriptions as challenges to Aegean Scripts corpora 49 -- 5. Ductus in Cypro-Minoan writing: definition, purpose and distribution -- of stroke types 75 -- 6. The magic of writing in the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean 99 -- 7. Relations between script, writing material and layout: the case of -- the Anatolian Hieroglyphs .121 -- 8. The rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet revisited 145 -- 9. Measuring particularity and similarity in Archaic Greek alphabets with NLP 167 -- 10. The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Cyprus: a case study -- in material culture 181 -- 11. Word-level punctuation in Latin and Greek inscriptions from Sicily of the Imperial period 195 -- 12. Speculative Syllabic .221 -- Bibliography .243. 330 $aWriting in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it. 410 0$aContexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series) 606 $aHistory, Ancient 606 $aWriting 607 $aMediterranean Region 615 0$aHistory, Ancient. 615 0$aWriting. 676 $a930 700 \$aSteele$b Philippa M.$01075653 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645996103321 996 $aWriting Around the Ancient Mediterranean$93392422 997 $aUNINA