Department of Classical Studies

Ancient Scripts
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Image of Linear B tablet Click on the following links to see some examples of Greek written in its pre-alphabetic form (Linear B) and on a variety of Papyri:
Linear B tablet
 

The following link is to a page that will show you how one alphabet was transformed into another - e.g. how the Phoenician alphabet was taken over and modified by the Greeks:

Evolution of Alphabets - by Professor Robert Fradkin, University of Maryland

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