Some Semitic Epigraphical Considerations on the Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet
@article{Naveh1973SomeSE,
title={Some Semitic Epigraphical Considerations on the Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet},
author={J. Naveh},
journal={American Journal of Archaeology},
year={1973},
volume={77},
pages={1}
}Although there is a consensus on the WestSemitic origin of the Greek alphabet, there is a scholarly controversy about the earliest use of the alphabet among the Greeks. Since this problem belongs mainly to the sphere of classical studies, most of the investigations have been done by Greek epigraphists. The present writer, being a Semitic epigraphist, believes, however, that recent Semitic epigraphical studies and especially the progress made in the field of the early evolution of the West… CONTINUE READING
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