Photo:
mechanical boustrophedon, different from the boustrophedon made by wooden plough and animals
2015, josé
Boustrophedon
(/ˌbaʊstrɵˈfiːdən/ or /ˌbuːstroʊˈfiːdən/; from Ancient Greek: βουστροφηδόν, boustrophēdon “ox-turning” from βοῦς, bous, “ox” , στροφή, strophē, “turn” and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of"; that is, turning like oxen in ploughing) is a kind of bi-directional text, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern English, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in Ancient Greece.
The Egyptian language, represented with hieroglyph texts and wall reliefs, is the major hieroglyphic language from antiquity; the only other language that also had a hieroglyph version, was the Luwian language and its hieroglyphic Luwian, read boustrophedon; (most of the language was in cuneiform). Other languages that appear to have hieroglyphs are explained as glyphs that make up a language with "script characters" or sets, (with some characters that are virtually identical to varieties of hieroglyphs).
The Hieroglyphic Luwian is read boustrophedon, with the direction of any individual line pointing into the front[meaning ambiguous: obverse to the front or pointing the same way as it] of the animals or body parts constituting certain hieroglyphs. However, unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs with their numerous ideograms and logograms which show an easy directionality, the lineal direction of the text in hieroglyphic Luwian is harder to see.
A modern example of boustrophedonics is the numbering scheme of sections within survey townships in the United States and Canada. In both countries, survey townships are divided into a 6-by-6 grid of 36 sections. In the U.S. Public Land Survey System, Section 1 of a township is in the northeast corner, and the numbering proceeds boustrophedonically until Section 36 is reached in the southeast corner. Canada's Dominion Land Survey also uses boustrophedonic numbering, but starts at the southeast corner.
The term is used by postmen in the United Kingdom to describe street numbering which proceeds serially in one direction then turns back in the other. (The same numbering method is used in some European cities.) This is in contrast to the more common method of odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street.
In art history, it additionally means that you read from bottom left in a series of pictures; as in the stained glass windows at Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
Another example is the boustrophedon transform, known in mathematics.
Sometimes computer printers with a typewriter-like moving type head print boustrophedon text if set up wrongly.
The IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System records its data boustrophedonically.
Additionally, the Indus script, although still undeciphered, can be written boustrophedonically.
Notice in Avoiuli script written using boustrophedon
The Avoiuli script used on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu can be written boustrophedonically.
wikipedia
" Écrivain, je vivais comme l'archaïque paysan du boustrophédon, vieux mot qui signifiait que le bœuf tirant la charrue se retourne au bout du sillon pour attaquer celui qui suit, en ligne parallèle mais en sens inverse"
Michel Serres, Variations sur le corps, Paris, Le Pommier, 2002
música
https://youtu.be/vuSCmE1UBgI
Michel Giacometti e Alfredo Tropa
Traditional music of the work in the fields
mechanical boustrophedon, different from the boustrophedon made by wooden plough and animals
2015, josé
Boustrophedon
(/ˌbaʊstrɵˈfiːdən/ or /ˌbuːstroʊˈfiːdən/; from Ancient Greek: βουστροφηδόν, boustrophēdon “ox-turning” from βοῦς, bous, “ox” , στροφή, strophē, “turn” and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of"; that is, turning like oxen in ploughing) is a kind of bi-directional text, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern English, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in Ancient Greece.
The Egyptian language, represented with hieroglyph texts and wall reliefs, is the major hieroglyphic language from antiquity; the only other language that also had a hieroglyph version, was the Luwian language and its hieroglyphic Luwian, read boustrophedon; (most of the language was in cuneiform). Other languages that appear to have hieroglyphs are explained as glyphs that make up a language with "script characters" or sets, (with some characters that are virtually identical to varieties of hieroglyphs).
The Hieroglyphic Luwian is read boustrophedon, with the direction of any individual line pointing into the front[meaning ambiguous: obverse to the front or pointing the same way as it] of the animals or body parts constituting certain hieroglyphs. However, unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs with their numerous ideograms and logograms which show an easy directionality, the lineal direction of the text in hieroglyphic Luwian is harder to see.
A modern example of boustrophedonics is the numbering scheme of sections within survey townships in the United States and Canada. In both countries, survey townships are divided into a 6-by-6 grid of 36 sections. In the U.S. Public Land Survey System, Section 1 of a township is in the northeast corner, and the numbering proceeds boustrophedonically until Section 36 is reached in the southeast corner. Canada's Dominion Land Survey also uses boustrophedonic numbering, but starts at the southeast corner.
The term is used by postmen in the United Kingdom to describe street numbering which proceeds serially in one direction then turns back in the other. (The same numbering method is used in some European cities.) This is in contrast to the more common method of odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street.
In art history, it additionally means that you read from bottom left in a series of pictures; as in the stained glass windows at Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
Another example is the boustrophedon transform, known in mathematics.
Sometimes computer printers with a typewriter-like moving type head print boustrophedon text if set up wrongly.
The IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System records its data boustrophedonically.
Additionally, the Indus script, although still undeciphered, can be written boustrophedonically.
Notice in Avoiuli script written using boustrophedon
The Avoiuli script used on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu can be written boustrophedonically.
wikipedia
" Écrivain, je vivais comme l'archaïque paysan du boustrophédon, vieux mot qui signifiait que le bœuf tirant la charrue se retourne au bout du sillon pour attaquer celui qui suit, en ligne parallèle mais en sens inverse"
Michel Serres, Variations sur le corps, Paris, Le Pommier, 2002
música
https://youtu.be/vuSCmE1UBgI
Michel Giacometti e Alfredo Tropa
Traditional music of the work in the fields
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