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Hathor was one of the most important goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon. Among her many jurisdictions, she presided over the gemstone turquoise, which is why she was worshipped at this temple in the mining settlement of Serabit el-Khadim. David Roberts, 1839.(Public domain) Admission is free A Stephen T. Johnson Alphabet City (1995) Leonard Baskin, A Gehenna Alphabet. The Gehenna Press was founded in 1942 and was one of the first fine-art presses in the USA. Alphabetics/an aesthetically awesome alliterated alphabet anthology. The twin crises of illiteracy and youth violence haunt our age; the failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimal levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture.Writing was invented in two different places around the same time 5,500 years ago: Mesopotamia (the region of modern-day Iraq) and Egypt. It was later reinvented, independently, in China and Mesoamerica. Five of our letters (F, U, V, W, and Y) all came from the same ancient semitic letter "waw", which meant "peg". Hence, "F is for peg". "A", on the other hand, came from an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph which resembled the head of an ox. Hence, "A is for ox", which gives the book its name. Each letter's mini-chapter takes us through its development into Greek, Etruscan, Roman, medieval Carolingian, 15th century humanist, and eventually modern forms. I was also surprised to learn that several of our letters were not quite into their modern shape when the 1700's began, although the "f"-like form of the letter "s" reminded me that I already knew about at least one case like that. And so were its imaginative responses. While some of the exhibits come with a message like David McLiman’s beautiful ‘Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet’ (New York 2006) which highlights the animals on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature; and the niche ‘Rescuing Q’ (2003), Suzanne Moore’s attempt to free the letter from its association with the right wing conspiracy theorists at QAnon to its rightful place at the heart of free thinking questions; most are playful representations that take inspiration from the artists’ own imagination and creative flair. There are miniature alphabet books and pop ups, concertina books, cloth books, and sculptural books, there are letters seen in the shapes of landscapes and letters made from human bodies, animated letters, floral letters, illuminated letters filled with comical characters and large numbers of Amazing Animal Alphabets. urn:lcp:isforoxshorthist0000davi:epub:58de0463-dd63-48b0-aae5-d2f92cde7793 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isforoxshorthist0000davi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t03036j2g Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781845671365

Next, they took the hieroglyph that looked like a house, which in Canaanite was called bayit, and designated it as the sound b. They continued until they had 27 letters — enough to represent all the consonants in their language. Incredibly, the people who invented the world's first alphabet may very well have been illiterate. Their inscriptions didn't follow the format of Egyptian writing, nor did they import any sounds or meanings from the earlier writing system as they likely would have done if they had learned hieroglyphs first. Taking the ox-head glyph, for instance, they decided it would represent the first letter of the word for ox in their language, ʾalef. So, the ox head became ʾ, a sound made in the throat that we don't have in English. The exhibition explores the connection between alphabets, books and artists – and its cases and cabinets overflow with the magic that this creates. The majority of the 150 works displayed, from medieval manuscripts to the AI-generated, are based on the Roman alphabet we use in the West. It starts at the beginning – once upon a time we made marks, ancient handprints that we can still see in caves from thousands of years ago. Then came pictograms, used for mundane administrative purposes to show ownership and represent classes of objects like barley, or sheep. But finding these to be too restrictive, signs to represent spoken sounds were invented. If you turn the letter A upside down, it looks something like an ox’s head– used to represent the initial sound for the Phoenician word for ox, ‘aleph’. B stands for ‘bēt’ , house in Phoenician. The Greeks changed the names from ‘aleph’ to ‘alpha’ and ‘bēt’ to ‘beta’ and hey presto the word alphabet was born.

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Fenike'lilerde alef kelimesi ingilizcede ox kelimesi öküz anlamına gelmektedir. Ox kelimesi telaffuz olarak yazıya dökülmüş olsaydı ax şeklinde yazılacaktı. Yazarda buradan yola çıkarak sözün önemini vurgulamak için kitabına bu ismi vermiş. Kitap boyunca da çeşitli konularla birlikte sözelliğin önemi vurgulanmaya çalışılmış. Günümüz düşünüldüğünde verilen örnekler güncelliğini yitirmiş gibi görünebilir fakat form değiştirdiği aşikar. Yazarın yer yer düşüncelerinin çok uç noktalara vardığını düşünüyorum. Yazarın günümüz dünyasıyla ilgili düşüncelerini de okuma fırsatım olsaydı karşılaştırma adına çok güzel olabilirdi. A drawing of a reed could mean "reed," but, since the Egyptian word for reed was ỉ, it could also stand for the sound ỉ in other words. The writing system operated on the same principle as a rebus puzzle, in which you might use a picture of a bumblebee as a substitute for the verb "be" because they sound the same.

Canaanite miners used their new alphabet to write on mine walls and to inscribe gifts to Hathor. The text on this statuette, running from upper left to lower right, seems to read 'mt l bʿlt,' meaning 'gift for the lady.' From Althebräische Inschriften vom Sinai by Hubert Grimme, 1923. (Public domain) The first half of the book gives a general overview of the development of alphabetic languages and lettering in general, focusing in on Europe, while the second half examines the (speculative, in some cases) history of the shape of each letter in the modern English alphabet. There are many illustrations and examples. Sometime around 750 BC, ancient Greeks learned the alphabet from the Phoenicians and added one last innovation: vowels. To do it, they simply took letters representing consonants that didn't exist in Greek and reassigned them to vowel sounds.People from Canaan — modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan — often travelled to wealthy, neighbouring Egypt to seek their fortunes. Canaanites worked across Egypt in a variety of occupations and even made their way to a remote, windswept plateau in the Sinai desert called Serabit el-Khadim. This combination of direct representation, sound-substitution, and the occasional extra sign for clarification enabled hieroglyphs to represent the entire Egyptian language. Because each symbol could have several different meanings, though, hieroglyphs were a very challenging writing system to read, and it took years of dedicated study to master the system. Enter the Canaanites The first half traces the development of the alphabet as a system of writing, representing (more-or-less) one symbol per sound. Specifically it covers the Latin alphabet as used in modern English, rather than, say, modern Greek or Cyrillic, from hieroglyphs though other forms such as cuneiform as they developed around the Mediterranean region, mainly for use in trade. Photographs and illustrations give a clear comparison of the different types of script.