JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Archaic Greek Alphabets, Proto-Sinaitic Script, Orthographic Depth
Document Summary
Greek has vowels first time had consonants and vowels. Several greek scripts before classical greek around crete and cyprus. Crete is home to the minoan civilization no one knows what they spoke, what ethnicity background. Many scripts on crete assumed to write the minoan language. No one knows how to read them, what they say undeciphered. Script direction is spiral either starts in middle and spirals outwards or starts on edge and works its way in. Only one example of this script on this disc found in crete at phaistos. It cannot be the only thing ever written of this script it was not carved or impressed, it was stamped. Third script that we do not know how to read. Used in parallel at the same places at the same time the interesting thing is maybe they"re different langauges written with different scripts, or the same language written with different scripts depending on purpose.
