Attic Script : A Survey

ISBN-13: 9780198132233 / Angielski

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Opis

This study places the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. Focusing on the period from the invention of the alphabet in the 8th century B.C. to the early 4th century B.C., when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script, the book presents inscriptions on stone, both public and private, scratched inscriptions on pottery, including the political ostraca, and some inscriptions on lead tablets. Although the vase inscriptions are brief, they number in the thousands and give an accurate picture of the art of writing and the state of literacy in the Classical Period.

Recenzje

'richly documented, generously illustrated, and fitted out with copious indexes...a manual or standard reference work for many years to come...sound and excellent account of the first three and a half centuries of Attic writing' Ronald S Stroud, American Journal of Archaeology

Spis treści

List of illustrations; list of figures; abbreviations; chart of letter forms on Attic vases; introduction; PART I: A HISTORICAL SURVEY: Eighth-century Attic inscriptions; Inscriptions of the Proto-attic period, 700-620 BC; Characteristics of early Greek writing; The Corinthianizing period, 620-570 BC; The François Vase and its contemporaries; Developed black-figure writing, 550-500 BC; Red-figure and black-figure writing, 530-500 BC; The late archaic period, 500-480 BC; Early classical: from the Persian wars to the mid-fifth century; Classical: from the mid-fifth century to the early fourth; PART II: A SURVEY OF LETTER-FORMS: Alpha-Sampi; punctuation; long consonants; some conclusions; Appendix 1. The Ionic alphabet in Attica; Appendix 2. Panathenaic prize Amphorae.