Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems

Project Information

CREWS

Grant agreement ID: 677758

DOI 10.3030/677758

Project closed

EC signature date 4 March 2016

Start date 1 April 2016

End date 30 September 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 472 519,00

EU contribution € 1 472 519,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Monographic books (10)

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets

Author(s): Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele
Published in: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS), 2019, ISBN 9781789250954
Publisher: Oxbow Books
DOI: 10.17863/cam.52376

Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9781789258523
Publisher: Oxbow Books
DOI: 10.17863/cam.89217

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and beyond - Editorial

Author(s): Robert Crellin, Thomas Jügel
Published in: 2020
Publisher: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.352

Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Author(s): Philip J Boyes
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781789255843
Publisher: Oxbow Books

The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices

Author(s): Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele, Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781789254792
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele
Published in: 2018, Page(s) Chapter 1, ISBN 9781-316729977
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.31841

Writing systems

Author(s): Terry Joyce, Robert Crellin
Published in: Written Language & Literacy, Issue 22/2, 2019, Page(s) 167-178, ISSN 1387-6732
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/wll.00024.joy

Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach

Author(s): Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781789258318
Publisher: Oxbow Books
DOI: 10.17863/cam.75109

The Early Greek Alphabets. Origin, Diffusion, Uses

Author(s): Robert Parker, Philippa M. Steele
Published in: 2021, Page(s) 1-18, ISBN 9780198859949
Publisher: OUP
DOI: 10.17613/78gj-fd54

The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems: Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and Greek

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781789256802
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Book chapters (15)

Introduction: writing practices in socio-cultural context

Author(s): Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele, Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Oxbow Books

The perfect system in Ancient Greek

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: Perfects in Indo-European Languages and beyond, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.352.13cre

What’s in a (personal) Name? Morphology and Identity in Jewish Greek Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: Postclassical Greek - Contemporary Approaches to Philology and Linguistics, 2020, Page(s) 245-282, ISBN 9783110677522
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/9783110677522-011

The perfect system in Latin

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: Perfects in Indo-European Languages and beyond, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.352.16cre

The Magic of Writing in the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean

Author(s): Philip J Boyes
Published in: Writing around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations, 2022, Page(s) 99-119, ISBN 9781789258523
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Introduction: Issues in Studying Early Alphabets

Author(s): Philip J Boyes, Philippa M Steele
Published in: Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets, 2019, Page(s) 1-14, ISBN 9781789250954
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Vowel quantity and quality in Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions from Africa and Sardinia

Author(s): Robert Crellin, Lucia Tamponi
Published in: Studies in Semitic Vocalization and Reading Traditions, Issue 3, 2020
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0207

‘Writing ‘systems’: Literacy and the transmission of writing in non-administrative contexts’ in Jasink, E.M., Weingarten, J. and Ferrara, S. (eds.) Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas: The semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media, Periploi 9, Firenze 2017, 153-172.

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele
Published in: Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas: The semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media, Periploi 9, Firenze 2017, 2017, Page(s) 153-172, ISBN 978-88-6453-637-8
Publisher: University of Firenze Press

‘From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values’ in Steele, P.M. (ed.) Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems, Oxford 2017, 93-110.

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele, Torsten Meissner
Published in: Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems, 2017, Page(s) 93-110, ISBN 9781-785706448
Publisher: Oxbow Books
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.11325

Other pre-alphabetic scripts of Crete and Cyprus

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele
Published in: Codebreakers and Groundbreakers, 2017, Page(s) 43-51, ISBN 978-1-910731-09-3
Publisher: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Introduction to the Persian Harmony of the Gospels

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: A Unified Gospel in Persian: An old variant of the Gospels along with exegetical comments by Yahyā Ibn Ayvaz-e Tabrīzī-ye Armanī, Issue 33, 2018, Page(s) vii--xvii, ISBN 978-91-513-0361-1
Publisher: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.25131

Introduction: approaches to the study of writing,and the development of the CREWS project

Author(s): Philippa M Steele
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 9781789258523
Publisher: Oxbow Books

A Comparative Approach to Methods of Inscribing Clay Tablets. Interaction and Innovation in Cyprus and Ugarit

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes
Published in: New Approaches to the Materiality of Text in the Ancient Mediterranean: From Monuments and Buildings to Small Portable Objects, 2023, Page(s) 35-52, ISBN 978-2-503-60156-4
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.17863/cam.100125

The Social Archaeology of Writing Systems

Author(s): Philip J Boyes
Published in: The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices, 2021, Page(s) 19-36, ISBN 9781789254815
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Variation in Alphabetic Cuneiform: Rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription from Sarepta

Author(s): Philip J Boyes
Published in: Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets, 2019, Page(s) 29-51, ISBN 9781789250954
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Peer reviewed articles (6)

The Wider World of Writing. Networks of people, practice and culture underpinning writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Author(s): Philip Boyes
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.17863/cam.86628

Writing vowels in Punic

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: Written Language & Literacy, Issue 22/2, 2019, Page(s) 198-222, ISSN 1387-6732
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/wll.00026.cre

Material Entanglements of Writing Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 12/24, 2020, Page(s) 10671, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su122410671

CLASSICAL GREEK SYNTAX - (D.) Goldstein Classical Greek Syntax. Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus. (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 16.) Pp. xvi + 331, figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €115, US$149. ISBN: 978-90-04-24297-5. 1

Author(s): Robert Crellin
Published in: The Classical Review, Issue 68/2, 2018, Page(s) 303-305, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x1800094x

Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: The Rise of Alphabetic Cuneiform

Author(s): Philip J. Boyes
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Issue 29/2, 2019, Page(s) 185-199, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774318000471

When the Phoenicians were Swedish: Rudbeck's Atlantica and Phoenician Studies

Author(s): Philip J. Boyes, Annie Burman
Published in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Issue 141(4), 2021, ISSN 0003-0279
Publisher: American Oriental Society
DOI: 10.7817/jaos.141.4.2021.ar027

Conference proceedings (3)

Writing and Social Diversity in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Author(s): Philip J Boyes
Published in: Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, Issue 33(1), 2022, Page(s) 1-25
Publisher: Institute of Archaeology
DOI: 10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1379

‘Linear A and Linear B: Structural and contextual concerns’

Author(s): Philippa M. Steele, Torsten Meissner
Published in: Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th Mycenological Colloquium 2-6 September, Copenhagen 2015, Issue Incunabula Graeca Vol. CV, 1, 2017, Page(s) 99-114, ISBN 9788-880802754
Publisher: Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo antico: Incunabula Graeca
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.11227

Escritura e Identidad: el caso de Pafos

Author(s): Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Published in: Opera Selecta. Estudios sobre el mundo clásico. Anejos de Veleia, Actas, Issue No.15, 2018, Page(s) 35-44, ISBN 978-84-9082-817-5
Publisher: Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
DOI: 10.17613/M6445HB7Q