The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt, New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period.
The volume The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt contains nine contributions from well-known papyrologists, Egyptologists, archaeologists and technical specialists. They discuss the materiality of ancient writing and writing supports in various ways through methodological considerations and th...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2018.
Series:
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava
35.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386266.
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Call Number: Z40 .M39
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Preface /
- Francisca Hoogendijk and Steffie van Gompel
- Notes on Contributors
- Figures
- Abbreviated Literature
- Editorial Notation
- The Material Authority of Written Texts in Pharaonic Egypt /
- Christopher Eyre
- The Platypus Paradox: An Archaeological Approach to Ancient Egyptian Writing Practices /
- Massimiliano S. Pinarello
- Telling Them by Their Hands: What Palaeography Has to Offer Prosopography /
- Rodney Ast
- The Body of the King and of the Goddess: Materiality in and through Manuals for Pharaoh from Tebtunis /
- Susanne Töpfer
- Material Matters: Documentary Papyri and Ostraca in Late Ramesside Thebes /
- Ben Haring
- Writing on Ostraca: Considerations of Material Aspects /
- Julia Lougovaya
- Ceramic Supports and Their Relation to Texts in Two Groups of Ostraca from the Fayum /
- Clementina Caputo and James M.S. Cowey
- Evolving Epigraphic Standards in the Field: Documenting Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egyptian Graffiti through Photogrammetry at Elkab /
- Luigi Prada and Paul D. Wordsworth
- Revealing the Material World of Ancient Writing: Digital Techniques and Theoretical Considerations /
- Kathryn E. Piquette
- Back Matter
- Bibliography.