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Hieratic
An Ancient Egyptian Cursive Script
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, in contrast to hieroglyphs which was effectively a monumental script. The surviving papyri, …
Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers
At Home and Overseas
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Poised as middlemen between the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, writers of Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered Late Bronze Age script of Cyprus, borrowed and transformed writing practices from their neighbors and invented new ones. Bits and pieces of the script are found throughout the Mediterranean, …
Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers
At Home and Overseas
Inbunden, 2025
918 kr
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Poised as middlemen between the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, writers of Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered Late Bronze Age script of Cyprus, borrowed and transformed writing practices from their neighbors and invented new ones. Bits and pieces of the script are found throughout the Mediterranean, …
Writing in Bronze Age Crete
'Minoan' Linear A
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally named 'Minoan' Linear A script, used on Crete and the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late …
Writing in Bronze Age Crete
'Minoan' Linear A
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally named 'Minoan' Linear A script, used on Crete and the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late …
Proto-Elamite
Writing and Society in Early Iran
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest scripts and it remains only very partly deciphered. Excavations have uncovered c. 1,700 clay tablets from Iran, dating c. 3300-2900 BCE. The tablets use a complex system involving hundreds of symbols to count commodities, people, and institutions. …
Proto-Elamite
Writing and Society in Early Iran
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
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Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest scripts and it remains only very partly deciphered. Excavations have uncovered c. 1,700 clay tablets from Iran, dating c. 3300-2900 BCE. The tablets use a complex system involving hundreds of symbols to count commodities, people, and institutions. …
Hieratic
An Ancient Egyptian Cursive Script
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, in contrast to hieroglyphs which was effectively a monumental script. The surviving papyri, …
Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Av Rachel Mairs
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
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This Element examines - for the first time in a single volume - the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara). It examines how successive invaders of this region, from Persia, Greece and India, left their linguistic and textual mark. It …
Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Av Rachel Mairs
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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This Element examines - for the first time in a single volume - the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara). It examines how successive invaders of this region, from Persia, Greece and India, left their linguistic and textual mark. It …
