Boustrophedon
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Boustrophedon is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style. This is in contrast to modern European languages, where lines
The Forum inscription (one of the oldest known Latin inscriptions) is written boustrophedon, albeit irregularly: reading from top to bottom, lines 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 run from right to left; lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, and 15, from left to right; 8, 9, and 16 are upside down. (From a rubbing by Domenico Comparetti.)
Rongorongo tablet highlighting a few glyphs symmetrical through a 180° rotation (reverse boustrophedon)
Notice in Avoiuli script written using boustrophedon
Linear A
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Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was ada
Boustrophedon
…Another example is the boustrophedon transform, known in mathematics. Sources also indicate that Linear A may have been written left-to-right, right-to-left, and in boustrophedon fashion. Permanent human teeth are numbered in a boustrophedonic sequence in…
Linear A tablet, Chania Archaeological Museum
The Minoan site of Hagia Triada, where roughly half of the known Linear A inscriptions were excavated.
Linear A tablet from the palace of Zakros, Archeological Museum of Sitia
Linear A inscription at the Museum of Prehistory, in Thera