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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 BC (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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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 BC (Hardcover, Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
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This is the only modern work to survey in depth the inscriptions of
Greece before 403 BC. Since its first publication in 1961, the body
of material available for study has increased substantially, and
the size of the Supplement in this reissue is a clear measure of
that growth. The new pages are partly the work of Anne Jeffery, and
partly that of her pupil Alan Johnston. The original text attempts
to reconstruct, for Greek inscriptions from the eighth to the fifth
centuries BC, a chronological system (divided tentatively into
twenty-five year periods) similar to those already generally
accepted for Greek sculpture and pottery. It includes surveys of
the origin and dissemination of the alphabet among the city states,
the development and content of early inscriptions, and the
techniques of the craftsmen, followed by a discussion of the
inscriptions of each state. Each section contains a list, with
bibliography, of all significant inscriptions, while numerous
photographs and facsimiles of the inscriptions provide an important
instrument of control. The approach is primarily archaeological,
but account is taken also of the many historical, philological, and
artistic problems involved. `This is a monumental, an altogether
superb, book ... It is a book worth waiting for, a major work for
reading and for reference, in its field incomparable, and a
contribution to the history of our civilization.' Classical World
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