Research Catalog

Title

The materiality of texts from ancient Egypt : new approaches to the study of textual material from the early pharaonic to the late antique period / edited by Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, Steffie M.T. van Gompel.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoogendijk, F. A. J.
• Gompel, Steffie M. T. van

Description

xv, 144 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 29 cm.

Summary

This volume 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.0The 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.

Series Statement

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; volumen XXXV

Uniform Title

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 35.

Subjects

• Writing
• Writing > Social aspects
• Writing materials and instruments
• Writing > Social aspects > Egypt > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Writing materials and instruments > History > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• To 1500
• Imaging systems in archaeology > Congresses
• History
• Egypt
• Writing > Egypt > History > To 1500 > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Papers from the conference "Beyond Papyri: The Materiality of Ancient Texts," held in Leiden, 27-29 October, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-131) and indexes.

Contents

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 Topfer -- 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 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.

Call Number

JFF 19-1175

ISBN

• 9789004375284
• 9004375287
• 9789004375277 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018027227
• 40028762928

OCLC

1043052705

Title

The materiality of texts from ancient Egypt : new approaches to the study of textual material from the early pharaonic to the late antique period / edited by Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, Steffie M.T. van Gompel.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; volumen XXXV

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 35.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-131) and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Hoogendijk, F. A. J., editor.

Gompel, Steffie M. T. van, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Materiality of texts from ancient Egypt. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004375277 (DLC) 2018031230

Other Standard Identifier

40028762928

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1175