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Using ostraca in the ancient world : new discoveries and methodologies /

Throughout Egypt's long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bülow-Jacobsen, Adam (Contribuidor), Haring, Ben (Contribuidor), Redon, Bérangère (Contribuidor), Caputo, Clementina (Editor ), Cromwell, Jennifer (Contribuidor), Lougovaya, Julia (Editor ), Schentuleit, Maren (Contribuidor), Folmer, M. L. (Contribuidor), Chaufray, Marie-Pierre, 1980- (Contribuidor), Davoli, Paola (Contribuidor), Lippert, Sandra Luisa (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Colección:Materiale Textkulturen ; Bd 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I Documentation and Interpretation of Ostraca as Archaeological Objects
  • Papyri and Ostraca as Archaeological Objects: The Importance of Context p. 11 / Paota Davoli
  • Pottery Sherds for Writing: An Overview of the Practice p. 31 / Clementina Caputo
  • Photography of Papyri and Ostraca p. 59 / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
  • II Cultural Contexts and Practices
  • The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns? p. 89 / Ben Haring
  • Greek Literary Ostraca Revisited p. 109 / Julia Lougovaya
  • III Ostraca in Context: Case Studies
  • Hi Ahutab: Aramaic Letter Ostraca from Elephantine p. 145 / Margaretha Folmer
  • Ostraca and Tituli Picti of Samut North and Bi'r Samut (Eastern Desert of Egypt): Some Reflections on Find Location p. 165 / Marie-Pierre Chaufray and Bérangère Redon
  • Demotic Ostraca and Their Use in Egyptian Temple Context from the Greco-Roman Period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit p. 183 / Sandra Lippert and Maren Schentuleit
  • "Forgive Me, Because I Could Not Find Papyrus": The Use and Distribution of Ostraca in Late Antique Western Thebes p. 209 / Jennifer Cromwell.