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Rubbed. Good. In a chipped, rubbed & torn dustwrapper., dustwrapper. 22x15cm, 350 pp., Spine sloped. Georgian text. Includes a 97-page Russian summary ["Alfavitnoe pis'mo i drevnegruzinskaja pis'mennost': tipologija i proischozdenie alfavitnych sistem pis'ma"]. Includes an English title-page ["Alphabetic writing and the Old Georgian script: a typology and provenience of alphabetic writing systems"] and a short English abstract on the dustwrapper flaps ["This work deals with theoretical problems of the typology and the origin and development of akphabetic system of writing from its antecedent, a mixed system of 'consonant-syllabic' type represented by the Old Semitic linear script..., . Problems of the origin of the Old Georgian (Iberian) system of writing and determination of its sources are specially discussed. The Old Georgian system of writing is analyzed against the broad typological backround of various sytems of alphabetic script, with reference fo Old Semitic (Phoenician), and Greek systems of writing, as well as to other scripts stemming from the latter two..., . A comparative analysis of the Old Semitic, ancient Greek and Old Georgian systems of script reveals the dependence of the Old Georgian system on the Greek rather than on the Old Semitic system to which Old Georgian script has ordinarily been linked. A comparison of Old Georgian writing with alphabetic writing systems stemming from the Greek prototype, such as Coptic, Gothic, Old Armenian, and Old Slavonic, brings to light inner characterstics of the Old Georgian alphabet and defines its typological place among these systems of the early Christian period.., ."].
