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Sto caricando le informazioni... Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond (2010)di Christopher Woods, Geoff Emberling, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Emily Teeter
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This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The pieces on cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the early alphabet are quite good, and really do focus on the invention or origin of the systems. Something I suspect is little appreciated is that from what's usually spoken of as the "first writing" in the late 4th millennium BC it took centuries until either hieroglyphs or cuneiform was used to write connected text with complete sentences - earlier writing consisted solely of isolated phrases, such as names, or stereotyped records where the reader had to supply details like verbs from context. The "invention of writing" was thus a very drawn-out process if one by writing understands something functionally like the modern form.
The essays on Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic and Anatolian hieroglyphs (aka Hieroglyphic Luwian/Hittite) are decent, but give a vague impression of mostly being included out of a sense of completeness. Hieratic separates from hieroglyphs very early on, but Coptic - a derivative of the Greek alphabet and younger than the Latin one - is surely very far from any origin of writing.