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Endnotes
See the refutation of I.J. Gelb’s thesis in David Diringer, The Alphabet (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968; 3rd edition), p. 166.
I made a similar argument at symposia on the Greek alphabet at Cornell University in 1979 and at the Institut Française in Athens in 1995. The Athens symposium, organized by the Greek Font Society, were published as Greek Letters from Tablets to Pixels, ed. Michael S. Macrakis (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996).
The script of the Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscription from
Joseph Naveh, “Some Semitic Epigraphical Considerations on the Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet,” American Journal of Archaeology 77 (1973), pp. 1–8.
Robert R. Stieglitz argues for a 14th-century B.C. date in “The Letters of Kadmos: Mythology, Archaeology, and Eteocretan” (Pepragmena tou d’Diethnous Kr