- an alphabet,
almost always listed in order. Typically,
abecedaria (or
abecedaries) are
practice exercises. Some
abecedaria include obsolete letters which...
-
economic texts.
Unique among the
Ugarit texts are the
earliest known abecedaries,
lists of
letters in
alphabetic cuneiform,
where not only the canonical...
- The
Ugaritic writing system is a
cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with
syllabic elements used from
around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic...
- from left to right: As far back as the 13th
century BCE,
ancient Hebrew abecedaries indicate a
slightly different ordering of the alphabet. The
Zayit Stone...
- only
known Gr****
abecedary which ends in the
letter tau (Τ), as does the
ancestral Phoenician alphabet; all
other Gr****
abecedaries have at
least the...
- States,” in
Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel
Zayit Abecedary in Context, ed. Ron E.
Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, (Winona Lake, IN, 2008)...
- Puck Aleshire’s
Abecedary (2000) by
Michael Swanwick, a
collection of short-short
stories (one for each
letter of the alphabet),
initially ran in The...
-
unambiguous evidence for
schools in
ancient Israel comes from a few
abecedaries and
accounting practice texts found at
sites such as
Izbet Sarta, Tel...
- Lebanon, and Pompeii. The
Safaitic alphabet comprises 28 letters.
Several abecedaries (lists of the alphabet) are known, but all are
written in
different orders...
- An
abecedarius (also
abecedary and abecedarian) is a
special type of
acrostic in
which the
first letter of
every word,
strophe or
verse follows the order...
