Mabel Lang | 1988 | ISBN: 0876616333 | English | 36 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Series:Excavations of the Atenian Agora Picture Book, 14

From the public and private buildings in and around the Athenian market place have come thousands of informal inscriptions scratched or painted on pots or on potsherds and on other everyday objects. Beginning soon after the introduction of the alphabet into Greece (now generally agreed to be near the middle of the 8th century B.c.), these casual notations continue in ever increasing numbers up through the 6th century of our era. They range in subject matter from the simplest ABC (alpha, beta, gamma) writing exercise or the scratching of a name, whether that of the writer, a god, or a friend, to complicated messages or detailed commercial notations. Such petty communications and expressions of individuality achieve a kind of importance by virtue of their very triviality. The writers, intent on their own concerns and giving no thought to the searching eye of history, reveal themselves unselfconsciously and give us not only an insight into everyday life in each succeeding period but also pure and unadulterated evidence concerning the history of literacy (letter shapes, letter values, spelling, direction of writing, use of abbreviation, and so on).
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