Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
6. Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE 9
7. The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone 20
8. To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean 36
9. Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece 105
10. Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” 123
11. Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
12. From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet 135
13. Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone 165
14. Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō 182
15. Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO 219
16. The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet 232
17. Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) 242
18. Part III: Graphê and Culture
19. Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories 261
20. Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone 285
21. Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet 309
22. Bibliography and Abbreviations 329
23. Notes on Contributors 360
24. General Index 365
25. Index Locorum 374