English Dictionary

boustrophedon

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌbuːstɹəˈfiːdən/

名詞

可算名詞 歴史的 書き言葉 不可算名詞

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

日本語の意味

古代の筆記法。交互に右から左、左から右へ書き進める方式の書体。

The archaeologist carefully documented the inscription, fascinated by its rare use of boustrophedon.

考古学者は碑文を注意深く記録し、行ごとに右から左、次の行は左から右へと交互に書かれるという珍しい書法に魅了された。

意味（1）

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

The number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small; most of those just cited have been brought down by the experts to a date close to 550 B.C., a date to which several texts of more than one line inscribed left to right may also be assigned (cf. pp.56—57 infra), besides the four-line retrograde sep. mon. of Pediarchus cited in the previous section (cf. p.52 supra). Stone texts only really become numerous in Attica about 550, and by this time it is clear that left-to-right writing is just as common as boustrophedon, and may have been so even earlier.[…]After 540 boustrophedon was certainly unusual.

boustrophedons （ plural ）