Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

John Cowan wrote:
>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.
Did they, by chance, tend to do likewise when the read the texts? Just
curious ...

                                                  Andreas
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