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Local Scripts
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Abstract Τhe Greeks took the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their needs. Τhey gave to five Phoenician letters the value of the vowels of their language, and added at the end of the alphabet the letters Φ, Χ, Ψ; this addition was not made simultaneously by all the Greeks. The adoption of the alphabet by the inhabitants of the individual Greek states, who themselves spoke different dialects, and the expansion throughout Greece was also made gradually and led to the evolution of the local scr…
Date:
2014-01-27
Adoption of the Ionic alphabet in Attica
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Abstract This entry examines the introduction and use of the Ionic script (individual letters or the Ionic script as a whole) in the Attic inscriptions dated before the archonship of Eucleides (403/2 BCE). In public documents the complete Ionic script is used sporadically well before 403/2 and systematically in the last decade of the 5th c. BCE. It was thought that the Ionic script was used only in documents closely related to Ionia. The reexamination of public documents written in the Ionic scri…
Date:
2014-01-22
Transition from the Local Alphabets to the Ionic Script
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Abstract This entry examines the transition from the local alphabets of archaic Greece to the Ionic script. Greek city-, tribal and federal states down to the end of the 5th c. BCE, in some cases even down to the first quarter of the 4th c., used their own local (epichoric) scripts. These scripts were substituted gradually by the East Ionic script from the beginning of the last quarter of the 5th c. till the ‘70s of the 4th c. Phonological developments such as changes in the pronunciation of cert…
Date:
2014-01-22
