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Script and Society - The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Hardcover)
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Script and Society - The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Hardcover)
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems, 3
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By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an
extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main
scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has
also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and
languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian
hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in
script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend
influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions
together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script
and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze
Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these
complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a
social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and
anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of
social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters
of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the
relationship between writing and place, and the complex
relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms
a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary
approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
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