UID:
edoccha_9959739878202883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) :
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illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s).
ISBN:
3-11-071290-3
Series Statement:
Materiale Textkulturen ; 32
Content:
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 the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- I. Documentation and Interpretation of Ostraca as Archaeological Objects -- Papyri and Ostraca as Archaeological Objects: The Importance of Context -- Pottery Sherds for Writing: An Overview of the Practice -- Photography of Papyri and Ostraca -- II. Cultural Contexts and Practices -- The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns? -- Greek Literary Ostraca Revisited -- III. Ostraca in Context: Case Studies -- Hi Aḥuṭab: Aramaic Letter Ostraca from Elephantine -- Ostraca and Tituli Picti of Samut North and Bi’r Samut (Eastern Desert of Egypt): Some Reflections on Find Location -- Demotic Ostraca and Their Use in Egyptian Temple Context from the Greco-Roman Period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit -- “Forgive Me, Because I Could Not Find Papyrus”: The Use and Distribution of Ostraca in Late Antique Western Thebes -- Contributors -- Indices
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Also available in print form.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: using ostraca in the ancient world. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2020] ISBN 9783110712865
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110712865
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9783110712902
