This article revisits a topic of major importance in the study ancient Greek historiography: Herodotus' use inscriptions—a significant group textual sources his Histories. The analysis centres on decidedly varied application epigraphic records. It shows how Herodotean narrator sometimes looks to draw out limitations certain inscribed materials as accurate records past, which thus serve foil for...

Hieroglyphs dominated the landscape of the Egyptian civilisation. These elaborate symbols were ideal for inscriptions on the walls of majestic temples and monuments, and indeed the Greek word hieroglyphica means 'sacred carvings', but they were too fussy for day-to-day scribbling, so other scripts were evolved in Egypt in parallel. These were the 'hieratic' and 'demotic' scripts, which can crud...

In the scansion offered below, a reconstruction of the Isa 1:2-20’s original orthography is presented. It is based on the premise that the text derives from the late 8th or early 7th cent. BCE. The orthography mimics that of the Siloam inscription and other inscriptions of that period. Even if by definition the reconstruction is less than certain in a number of instances, it serves to highlight...