βουστροφηδόν (noun) Boustrophedon

Greek: βουστροφηδόν (Ancient Greek); Boustrophedon (noun) , literally in Greek βοῦς = “ox”, στροφή = “turn”, and the adverbial suffix -δόν = “like, in the manner of”. boo-stre-feedn (Phonetic text) 

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Boustrophedon (boo-stre-feedn) is a type of bi-directional text, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern European languages, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in Ancient Greece.

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