Too Much Writing, Too Few Scribes: Extra-Scribal Writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE)

Contents

List of Figures

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

About the Author

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.