Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
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Today! 10th June, 16.30 BST (online only)
Sveva Elti di Rodeano
Phrygian and the Spread of the Alphabet
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The Origins and Evolution of Writing: A Very Brief Synthesis
My talk last week at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, for the VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social
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brief introduction to Venetic here from @viewsproject.bsky.social with links to some further posts by @katherinemcdon.bsky.social
Can't help feeling this gives a lot of insight into some ancient monuments!
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this is pretty neat, a late 19th century Kütahya ceramic tile reproducing an 8th century BCE Neo-Hittite rock relief...
“Is legibility the primary goal here? Do we want people to be able... read those words?... and the answer came back, ‘No, it should have the promise of meaning, it should be decipherable, everything should be spelled right and it should make sense.’”
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Red alphabets and yellow alphabets - take that, Archaic Greece!
(Joke reveal: regional Archaic Greek alphabets were very diverse in letter shapes and values, and have been classified into colour-coded types by modern scholars: red, green, light blue and dark blue. But not yellow! 😁)
We recently held a very interesting clay play session, with a mini lecture on Linear B and lots of discussion of practical methods of tablet making - with some bonus wooden fork cuneiform.
I have been promising for a while to say something about the Venetic goddess of writing. Last term, my colleague Dr Katherine McDonald gave a short seminar series on the Venetic language, which was…
