Script and Society
Script and Society By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices…
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Script and Society
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. 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. 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.
It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary
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