Sentence examples for archaic script from inspiring English sources

I had such an experience driving to an appointment one morning, when I suddenly found myself unable to read the names of streets; they seemed to be written in a strange archaic script — Phoenician, perhaps — that I could not decipher.

His "Poem on the Heavenly Emperor," done in ink on satin, suggests a fantastic, neurotic aria of wishful thinking, incorporating bits and pieces of archaic script into a baroque play of graphic trills and runs.

Now, the so-called Nash Papyrus, which was bought fifty years ago from an Egyptian dealer by an Englishman, is written in an archaic script which at that time was hardly known, and it had usually been regarded as the oldest Hebrew manuscript in existence.

As a result, archaic scripts had a major revival.

The Sumerian archaic cuneiform script and the Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered to be the earliest writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400 3200 BC with the earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BC.

For each instance of calligraphy, an appropriate style is used, ranging from seal script (more archaic) to clerical script.

There is no doubt in my mind that the script is more archaic than that of the Nash Papyrus. . . .

Several pleasantly archaic-looking modern fonts, including "Declaration Script," have been inspired by it.

The storyline is well thought out and suitably archaic to remain interesting throughout, while the script is funny and charming.

Earlier refugees fled to the Middle East and, once settled, continued to produce learned works in a literary archaic form of Castilian written in an adapted Hebrew script.

There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th century bce) and Archaic and Classical periods (beginning with the adoption of the alphabet, from the 8th to the 4th century bce); a Hellenistic and Roman phase (4th century bce to 4th century ce); a Byzantine phase (5th to 15th century ce); and a Modern phase.