nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtp838vdwkjvhs2e0flh0h0cz9kg0n4hh2l9c06zd6pk4dqaf626sze9vtr (nprofile…9vtr) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds504uq7 (nprofile…4uq7) afaik the proto-sinaitic script was still written in both directions (including changing direction on alternate lines), and so were the early greek and italic (including etruscan) texts, settling on a standard direction happened a bit later, and it ended up being the opposite direction between Semitic languages and Greek + the linguistic mess that was Italy.
I'm not sure whether there has been any research on why it happened this way, or if it was a random chance (which sounds pretty likely, considering that the writing mediums were pretty similar in both places).
boustrophedic and right-to-left inscriptions from the pre-roman iron age are quite common in the museums of northern Italy, even if the alphabet they were using was definitely derived from the Greek one (probably after going through the Etruscans, as they were the local prestige civilization at the time)
