Old Italic scripts
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The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member
The Raetic alphabets
Duenos inscription, 6th century BC
Giorces Veii Apollo 1
lossy page 1 Segni alfabeto nucerino.tif
Greek alphabet
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic scrip
Old Italic scripts
…century BC Direction Right-to-left script, left-to-right, boustrophedon Related scripts Parent systems Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Greek (Euboean variant) Old Italic Child systems Runic, Latin alphabet ISO 15924 ISO 15924 Ital (210), Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) Unicode Unicode…
Dipylon inscription, one of the oldest preserved inscriptions in the Greek alphabet, c. 740 BC
Early Greek alphabet on pottery in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, c. 420 BC
Excerpt from the second-century Bankes Homer manuscript, already displaying a hand very much like the fourth-century biblical uncial
A 16th-century edition of the New Testament (Gospel of John), printed in the renaissance typeface Grecs du roi by Claude Garamond