Attic Script : A Survey

by: Immerwahr, H.R.

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The aim of this study is to place the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens from the time of the invention of the alphabet in the eighth century BC to the early fourth, when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script. Other sources include the inscriptions on stone, both public and private, scratched inscriptions on pottery, among them the political ostraca, and some inscriptions on lead tablets; they are, however, insufficient to give a full picture of actual writing practices in a period from which we have no papyri. Although the vase inscriptions are brief, they number in the thousands, and being autographs of the period, they give a more accurate picture of the art of writing and the state of literacy in the Classical period. This book presents a selection of inscriptions, with many illustrations, that will help students of ancient vase painting to properly appreciate the individuality, writing competence, and level of education of the members of the pottery workshops, and epigraphists to get a better feel for the different styles of the well-known stone inscriptions. Professor Immerwahr has been working for many years on a complete collection of the inscriptions on Attic pottery, which he hopes will help contribute to a wide-ranging study of aspects of ancient life.

Subjects:
Antiquities
Athens (Greece) Antiquities
Athens (Greece) Intellectual life
Attic Greek dialect Writing
Attique (Langue) Écriture
Greece
Greece Antiquities
Greece Athens
Grèce Antiquités
Inscriptions grecques Grèce Athènes
Inscriptions, Greek
Inscriptions, Greek Greece Athens
Intellectual life
Paleography, Greek
Paleography, Greek Greece Athens
Paléographie grecque Grèce Athènes
Peinture de vases grecque Grèce Athènes
Vase-painting, Greek
Vase-painting, Greek Greece Athens
Vases grecs Grèce Athènes
Vases, Greek
Vases, Greek Greece Athens

Series:
Oxford monographs on classical archaeology

xxiii, 214 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Attic Script : A Survey

by: Immerwahr, H.R.

• ISBN-13: 9780198132233 / 978-0-19-813223-3
• ISBN-03: 0198132239 / 0-19-813223-9
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990

Price: 145,00 EURO

1 copy in stock