Abecedarium (alphabet)

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

ancient Greek abecedarium in the National Archaeological Museum , Athens

An abecedarium (also: Abecedar ; Latin abecedarium , roughly: "ABC-Aufstellung", "Alphabet") or alphabetarium is an inscription in archaeological and epigraphic terminology that consists of only one alphabet . In the case of the ancient Latin alphabet (without the modern letters J, U, W) an abecedarium would look like this:

ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVX YZ

Abecedaries are already handed down in the oldest Semitic alphabet scripts , from ancient Greece and from the Etruscans and Romans . It is believed that they should serve as a memory aid for learning the ABCs, which is borne out by their appearance on the edge of writing boards. But the magical use of Abecedarians is also attested early on.

The term abecedarium itself came into being in late Latin as a name for the Latin alphabet .