The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids /

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Other Authors: Papaconstantinou, Arietta.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

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Call Number: P115.5 .E39 M85 2010

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofía Torallas Tovar Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn Case studies in language use in a multilingual society. What's in a sign? translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat Toujours honneur au grec? À propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boudhors Language choice in the Qurra archive / Sebastian Richter Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.