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archaic

A collection of archaic fonts.

The collection contains fonts to represent Aramaic, Cypriot, Etruscan, Greek of the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Linear A, Linear B, Nabatean old Persian, the Phaistos disc, Phoenician, proto-Semitic, runic, South Arabian Ugaritic and Viking scripts.

The bundle also includes a small font for use in phonetic transcription of the archaic writings. The bundle's own directory includes a font installation map file for the whole collection.

The authors are Peter R. Wilson, Uwe Zimmermann and Apostolos Syropoulos.

License: lppl Catalogued: 2006-11-08

- Visit
  - Visit a nearby CTAN:/fonts/archaic. If this fails, try Cambridge.
  - Visit Cambridge:/fonts/archaic
- Download
  - Download from a nearby CTAN (automatically identified).
  - Download from Cambridge.
- Documentation
  - A description of Peter Wilson's contribution: README.PRW.
  - Collection of font samples: asamples.pdf.
- Distributions
  - This package is included in TeX Live.
  - This package is included in MikTeX.