I just saw the following posting on the Ancient Near Eastern email list. Interesting in light of the Phoenician and Archaic Greek discussions here, no?
Notice the striking non-use of the term "Phoenician" in the conference title, using "West Semitic" instead. Maybe we should wait to see what comes out of this conference. I wish I could attend. ***************************************** Conference: ALPHABETIC RESPONSES TO WESTERN SEMITIC WRITING A conference on the development and use of alphabetic Greek and other writing systems in the Early Iron Age Mediterranean. 1st to 3rd July 2004, at St. Hilda's College Oxford. For programme, booking form and further details please visit the conference web-site at: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/LSAG/conference2004. Maggy Sasanow Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents 67 St. Giles Oxford OX1 3LU Tel: 01865 288255 ****************************************** Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
