Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

Dan Seriff scripsit:

> Apparently there are none. It appears that Greek boustropedon was
> realized in those two ways, which can be called inverted and
> non-inverted. This is from the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems.
By inverted you mean reversed L<->R?


IIRC, the boustrophedoid style of rongo-rongo is every other line upside
down: rather than writing backward along the alternate lines, the whole
writing surface (a tablet) was turned over in the hand.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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