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act of writing skip to content search for menu news events epigraphy in action publications conferences crews visiting fellows free teaching materials video lessons worksheets resources contact us tag act of writing february 20 2019 july 16 2019 viewsproject the world of writing reconstructing mycenaean scribes and archives in lego happy international lego classicism day to all our friends and colleagues in celebration this year i have been working on something special a re imagining of the cover art from john chadwick s the mycenaean world book in a 3d lego model far from a just for fun exercise this actually has some helpful practical applications in making us question what mycenaean scribes did at work and how linear b archives functioned continue reading reconstructing mycenaean scribes and archives in lego november 25 2018 july 16 2019 viewsproject epigraphy in action the world of writing what to write with styli for clay tablets in the ancient aegean and eastern mediterranean my research has taken a fun turn towards practical experiments lately as some of our twitter followers may have noticed it isn t just because i wanted to get away from the computer though i did it s because i have been working on a problem where direct evidence is scarce and or difficult to interpret and where experimentation is surprisingly elucidating my work on a replica cypro minoan tablet we know that during the bronze age a number of civilisations around the eastern mediterranean were using clay to write on from mesopotamian cuneiform to linear a and b in the aegean people found that this reusable natural resource provided a vital tool for making records but they didn t all use it in the same way and they didn t all use the same implements or methods to write on it instead traditions of writing display considerable regional differences whether or not there might have been any influences from one place to another continue reading what to write with styli for clay tablets in the ancient aegean and eastern mediterranean july 12 2017 july 12 2017 viewsproject the world of writing new roman writing tablets from vindolanda recent excavations at vindolanda a roman fort on hadrian s wall have turned up some wonderful finds some of the most exciting of which are newly discovered writing tablets this week a press release revealed some juicy details about the new inscriptions which have yet to undergo conservation and careful palaeographic study all pictures in this article are ones made available by the vindolanda trust in their press release and on twitter unless otherwise stated continue reading new roman writing tablets from vindolanda february 15 2017 june 3 2017 viewsproject epigraphy in action the world of writing writing systems hands on with cuneiform when i joined the crews project and started my research on the context of writing at ugarit one of the challenges was getting to grips with akkadian ugarit was a tremendously cosmopolitan and multilingual city at the crossroads between the mediterranean mesopotamia and anatolia and this means that the writing we have from the city comes in a wide range of languages and scripts the most common are ugaritic usually written in a form of alphabetic cuneiform and akkadian continue reading hands on with cuneiform february 1 2017 june 3 2017 viewsproject epigraphy in action the world of writing how to make a cylinder seal in the ancient world if you wanted to sign something you used a seal they came in various shapes and sizes stamps seals signet rings but the general idea was always the same you had a small object that you could press into clay or wax to mark it with a design unique to you just like a signature this could be used in various ways in the near east for example legal decisions or transactions might be recorded on a tablet and then all the witnesses would press their seals into the clay next to their names in other cases it could function as an official lock a door or container lid could have a blob of clay pressed over the join and this would be marked with an official s seal if the clay was broken or if it had been replaced with one without the seal then people would know it had been tampered with here s one of the most famous examples of this the unbroken clay seal on the tomb of tutankhamun photographed before it was opened in 1922 continue reading how to make a cylinder seal may 15 2016 june 3 2017 viewsproject writing systems mayan glyphs as a writing system firstly let me welcome any new readers who have come over from twitter where the project now has a presence as crewsproject for this post we are going on an exotic excursus away from the mediterranean to ancient ish mesoamerica recently i had the pleasure of attending a seminar on mayan glyphs given by steve houston of brown university it struck me that mayan provides a fascinating alternative view of the concept of writing alternative because it seems in many ways counter intuitive not only to a modern literate person but even to someone like me who has been working on ancient writing systems for years figure 1 mural from san bartolo with glyphs top left one of the earliest examples of mayan writing c 100 bc continue reading mayan glyphs as a writing system contexts of and relations between early writing systems crews is a european research council funded project hosted at the faculty of classics cambridge we are working on new approaches to the history of writing with a focus on writing systems of the ancient aegean eastern mediterranean and levant c 2000 600 bc read more on our about page follow the crews blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow crews this project has received funding from the european research council erc under the european union s horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement no 677758 take a virtual tour of our display on ancient writing systems check out the crews youtube channel follow crews on twitter my tweets follow on wordpress com recent posts pippa s new book on writing in the bronze age aegean october 24 2023 the endangered writing network august 17 2023 crews volume reviews june 20 2023 the results of the crews project new cordis article march 6 2023 farewell crews and hello views september 30 2022 a final crews project seminar september 23 2022 fonts in the epigraphic and manuscript traditions of roman antiquity guest post by olena mudalige september 15 2022 pippa on tv september 5 2022 writing on hadrian s wall september 4 2022 multilingual syro anatolian iron age inscriptions my research as a crews project visiting fellow guest post by claudia posani august 31 2022 mind the gap abbreviations contractions and alphabetic symbolism guest post by brien garnand august 24 2022 the survival of languages and writing systems august 22 2022 a new approach to old writing using graphology and rti technology on linear b guest post by lavinia giorgi august 10 2022 a brief introduction to the introduction of cuneiform on the armenian highlands guest post by annarita bonfanti august 3 2022 dots between words in northwest semitic inscriptions june 29 2022 obi wan kenobi and literacy in the star wars universe june 22 2022 new podcast with pippa june 4 2022 the last round of crews visiting fellows may 14 2022 philip s ane today article april 23 2022 views pippa s exciting new project march 17 2022 the introduction of the greek alphabet in ancient cyprus guest post by dr beatrice pestarino february 25 2022 homeric writing in lego february 20 2022 writing on lions december 23 2021 webinar on the aegean scripts november 4 2021 images from crews blog posts this slideshow requires javascript search for crews blog archives crews blog archives select month october 2023 1 august 2023 1 june 2023 1 march 2023 1 september 2022 5 august 2022 5 june 2022 3 may 2022 1 april 2022 1 march 2022 1 february 2022 2 december 2021 1 november 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