{"id":1538,"date":"2012-05-18T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2014-09-21T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:50:57","slug":"lists-as-backbone-of-early-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/lists-as-backbone-of-early-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lists as Backbone of early writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“……..in the very first phase of writing’s development, were lexical texts, word lists containing terms … names of metal objects, ceramic vessels, textiles, cities, trees, plants, cattle, swine, birds, fish, etc. Along with mathematical reckoning, these lexical lists were undoubtedly the backbone of early scribal education.”<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The Library of Alexandria, Roy Macleod<\/a><\/span>, I.B. Tauris, 2004, p.20<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u7JsfwAcCo0<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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I was thinking of cuneiform <\/a><\/span>this morning as I was practicing working with Japanese ink and\u00a0 a new brush I brought from Kyoto.<\/h3>\n

I love lists, inventories, dictionaries, etc.; Creating in such a frame makes me feel free as an initiator of an imaginary world<\/a>. This is probably one of the reasons most of my art is named under a fictional mound called: Tel Nona<\/a>. This is where I invent history.<\/h3>\n

This “Blog as artwork” – is also an\u00a0aspect of digging in my mound.<\/h3>\n

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As a resonance to the\u00a0 cuneiform I was trying not to know reading and writing, only to count to ten- as the number of fingers on our hands.<\/h3>\n

As\u00a0the strokes add up- I can see how every single tiniest move of my hand or body gesture, changes the image\u00a0 on paper. There are no two identical dots.<\/h3>\n

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Toddlers name, count, and by that arrange order in their world.<\/h3>\n

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I recall Adam and Eve, who were given the task to name\u00a0animals in The Garden.<\/h3>\n

They too were babies learning right from wrong, order of the world and growing up to realize they are out of the garden.<\/h3>\n

So I continue counting.<\/h3>\n

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Beth She\u2019arim excavations, 2014 \u2013 Naming<\/a><\/h4>\n

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“……..in the very first phase of writing’s development, were lexical texts, word lists containing terms … names of metal objects, ceramic vessels, textiles, cities, trees, plants, cattle, swine, birds, fish, etc. Along with mathematical reckoning, these lexical lists were undoubtedly the backbone of early scribal education.” The Library of Alexandria, Roy Macleod, I.B. Tauris, 2004, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,233,1,362,89,204],"tags":[333,92,289,366,232,334,18,335,226,28,342,331,22,211,332,7,336,340,341,262,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}