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Using ostraca in the ancient world: new discoveries and methodologies

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Klappentext: 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 s...

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Corporate Author: International Conference "Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies", Heidelberg (Author)
Other Authors: Caputo, Clementina (Editor) , Lougovaya-Ast, Julia (Editor) , Bülow-Jacobsen, Adam (Contributor) , Haring, Ben J. J. (Contributor) , Redon, Bérangère (Contributor) , Cromwell, Jennifer (Contributor) , Schentuleit, Maren (Contributor) , Folmer, Margaretha (Contributor) , Chaufray, Marie-Pierre (Contributor) , Davoli, Paola (Contributor) , Lippert, Sandra L. (Contributor)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter 16. Dezember 2020
Series:Materiale Textkulturen Band 32
In: Materiale Textkulturen (Band 32)

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DOI:10.1515/9783110712902
Subjects:
Konferenzschrift
Geschichte
Ostrakon
Griechenland
Ägypten
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Author Notes:edited by Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya
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Summary:Klappentext: 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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ISBN:9783110712902
9783110712957
DOI:10.1515/9783110712902
Access:Open Access

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