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.
