Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca

Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9789004439009
ISBN-13 : 9004439005
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Synopsis Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca by :

This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Francisca Hoogendijk, containing fifty-six editions and re-editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca, dating from the twelfth century BCE until the eighth century CE.

The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt

The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9789004375277
ISBN-13 : 9004375279
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Synopsis The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt by :

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 through practical case studies from the early Pharaonic to the Late Antique periods in Egypt, including Greek and Egyptian papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. The articles in this volume present new approaches to the study of textual material and scribal practice, especially in the light of the ongoing development of digital techniques that uncover new information from ancient writing materials. The aim of the book is to encourage researchers of ancient texts to consider the benefits of using these new methods and technological resources.

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 721
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ISBN-10 : 9780190604653
ISBN-13 : 0190604654
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Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography by : Vanessa Davies

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

Priests, Tongues, and Rites

Priests, Tongues, and Rites
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789047406747
ISBN-13 : 9047406745
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Synopsis Priests, Tongues, and Rites by : Jacco Dieleman

This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 1300
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ISBN-10 : 9780199271870
ISBN-13 : 0199271879
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology by : Ian Shaw

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt, from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. Authoritative yet accessible, and covering a wide range of topics, it is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin

New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin
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Publisher : Studies on Elephantine
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9004505571
ISBN-13 : 9789004505575
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Synopsis New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin by : James D. Moore

"The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt under Persian occupation. Unknown to the world, many papyri fragments from those excavations remained uncatalogued in the Berlin Museum. In New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin James D. Moore edits the remaining legible Aramaic fragments, which belong to letters, contracts, and administrative texts"--

Digital Papyrology I

Digital Papyrology I
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9783110547474
ISBN-13 : 3110547473
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Synopsis Digital Papyrology I by : Nicola Reggiani

Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the material ways of preserving it; the need to work with a multifarious and overwhelming amount of different data). After more than thirty years of development, we have now at our disposal the most advanced tools to make papyrological studies more and more effective, and even to create a new conception of "papyrology" and a new model of "edition" of the ancient documents. At this turining point, it is important to build an epistemological framework including all the different expressions of Digital Papyrology, to trace a historical sketch setting the background of the contemporary tools, and to provide a clear overview of the current theoretical and technological trends, so that all the possibilities currently available can be exploited following uniform pathways. The volume represents an innovative attempt to deal with such topics, usually relegated into very quick and general treatments within journal articles or papyrological handbooks.

Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt

Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781803275864
ISBN-13 : 1803275863
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt by : Alexandre Loktionov

How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language itself, with reference to all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times.

Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 475
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ISBN-10 : 9781107007758
ISBN-13 : 1107007755
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Synopsis Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by : Christelle Fischer-Bovet

This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.

Notes on the Story of Sinuhe

Notes on the Story of Sinuhe
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101038152078
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Notes on the Story of Sinuhe by : Alan Henderson Gardiner