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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Weren't alphabets all capitals all the time back then?
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Sumerians didn't have an Alphabet. Only one Cuneiform script used an alphabet. About 12th C. BC. The Hebrew, Phoenician, Greeks, Etruscans, ProtoCelts (Keltoi) and Romans had related alphabets from a single semitic source and no concept of UPPER and lower case lettering.
Norse and other Runes as well as Ogham are later alphabets than Roman.
The Drop Caps etc came in after the invention of minuscule or insular alphabets, certainly before the Tenth Century and probably after the Fifth Century.
Alphabetic Cuneiform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic
Cuneiform of the Akkadian era much easier to write than read because a glyph might be a word or sound or idea in Sumerian, Akkadian or the Goddess Language because Akkad absorbed Sumerian Culture after conquering them and it survived in some places. But Sumerian isn't Semitic and Akkadian is a Semitic Language. Imagine Latin and Chinese using the same ideograms. Sometimes on the same tablet!