The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece : A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C.

by: Jeffery, L.H. Robertson, M. Boardman, J. Coulton, J. Kurtz, D.

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 The local scripts of archaic Greece : a study of the origin of the Greek alphabet and its development from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C.
Authors:L. H. Jeffery, A. W. Johnston
Summary:A detailed survey of the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC, which attempts to construct a chronological system divided into 25 year periods, similar to those used for Greek sculpture and pottery. This revised edition contains additional photographs of the most significant inscriptions.

Series:
Oxford monographs on classical archaeology

Contents:
Part 1 The origin and transmission of the Greek alphabet. Part 2 Writing in archaic Greece: direction of the script and methods of inscribing; materials used; the subjects of early Greek inscriptions; letter-forms as evidence for dating inscriptions. Part 3 The local scripts: central Greece; the Peloponnese; north-western Greece; the western colonies; the Aegean Islands; the eastern Greeks; the northern colonial area.

The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece : A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C.

by: Jeffery, L.H. Robertson, M. Boardman, J. Coulton, J. Kurtz, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780198140610 / 978-0-19-814061-0
• ISBN-03: 0198140614 / 0-19-814061-4
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990

Price: 445,00 EURO

1 copy in stock