Too Much Writing, Too Few Scribes: Extra-Scribal Writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE)
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80327-995-4 (ISBN)
‘Extra-scribal’ writing encompasses a myriad of writing practices, from potmarking to graffiti to text erasure, often deemed unworthy of study by previous generations of scholars. The producers of ‘extra-scribal’ texts often operated in the margins of the palatial and administrative centers of their day. They wrote on and marked atypical writing media: not clay tablets or papyrus but ostraca, stone, and vessels. Focusing on the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and Aegean, regions rich in scripts and languages, this volume highlights similarities and differences in writing and marking practices across time and place. Contributors come from the fields of Egyptology, Hittitology, Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, Aegean prehistory, Cypriot archaeology, and Information Sciences, applying a range of theoretical models to the subject matter. The volume reflects an interdisciplinary approach to a set of topics only now coming to the fore in scholarly literature.
Cassandra Donnelly is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus with the ERC Starting Grant (947749) ComPAS project (“Commercial Patterns Across the Sea”) where she studies Cypro-Minoan script and marks incised on Canaanite Jars. Her training is in Aegean scripts and languages, with a specialization in the Cypro-Minoan script.
Too much writing, too few scribes: Extra-scribal writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE) – Cassandra M. Donnelly
Section I: Craft Literacy and Non-Scribal Writing
Potmarks in Context: Some Preliminary Observations on Marked Vessels from Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus – Teresa Bürge
A Desert Writing Idiom: North Kharga’s Ancient Carvers Modify and Appropriate Standard Egyptian Scribal Practices – Nikolaos Lazaridis
Non-Administrative Linear A Writing Practices: The Case of Stone Vessels (c.1800-1450 BC) – Mnemosyne Rice
Material Matters: The Influence of Materiality on the Structure and Palaeography of the Linear A script of Bronze Age Crete – Ester Salgarella
Section II: Meaning Making
Unique and Universal: The Workmen’s Identity Marks from Deir el-Medina in Comparative Perspective – K. V. J. van der Moezel
This Means That: Processes of Fixing and Conveying Meaning with Seals – Sarah Finlayson
Tracing Graphic Signs of the Byblos Script in the Bronze Age Potmarking Systems in Lebanon – Metoda Peršin
Section III: Materiality
Eternal Works: Stone as a Book Medium in Pharaonic Egypt – Chana Algarvio
Materials of Writing: Ostraca Use at Tell Edfu – Kathryn Bandy
Un-Writing Text: Intentional Erasing and Damaging of Script in Ancient Egypt – Elena L. Hertel
Hittite and Neo-Hittite Writing Styli with Pointed Tips: Catalog, Technology, Significance – Michele Cammarosano
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology |
| Zusatzinfo | Colour and Black & White Figures throughout |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 205 x 290 mm |
| Gewicht | 1028 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80327-995-8 / 1803279958 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80327-995-4 / 9781803279954 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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