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As a child I would often wonder when I saw an illustration of a stone tablet, and ask myself: What did the inscription mean? How did these people sound when they talked? What would that piece of clay say if it could speak! The enigma of the Phaistos Disc is revisited here in the light of new findings. From the various interpretations of the origin of the symbols depicted on the disc. Kober, Ventris, Chadwick and Bennett, the cryptologists are remembered for paving the way for us to underst...

Tablets (Paleography) --- Phaistos Disk. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Ancient civilization --- Phaestus Disk --- Inscriptions --- Waxen tablets --- Writing tablets --- Diptychs --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments

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This graduate level textbook focuses on the mechanical properties and performance of products made of fiber-based materials such as paper and board. The book aims to help students develop effective skills for solving problems of product performance and engineering challenges in new product development. Therefore the material is organized with a problem-based approach - a practical example of product performance is presented and then the relevant mechanics are analyzed to deduce which material properties control the performance.

Paper --- Paper products. --- Paper manufactures --- Manufactures --- Papers --- Fibers --- Writing materials and instruments --- Mechanical properties. --- Cardboard. --- Materials Science. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Paper. --- Product Development.

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This study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of everyday life in medieval Russian society. In this study, the birchbark letters are addressed from a pragmatic angle. Linguistic parameters are identified that shed light on the degree to which literacy had gained ground in communicative processes. It is demonstrated that the birchbark letters occupy an intermediate position between orality and literacy. On the one hand, oral habits of communication persisted, as reflected in how the birchbark letters are phrased; on the other hand, literate modes of expression emerged, as seen in the development of normative conventions and literate formulae.

Bark inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Russian (Old) --- Inscriptions, Old Russian --- Old Russian inscriptions --- Russian inscriptions (Old) --- Birch bark inscriptions --- Inscriptions on bark --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments

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In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children interred with writing equipment, notably inkwells, in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. The volume offers a comprehensive review of recent approaches to literacy during Roman antiquity and adds a distinctive material turn to our understanding of this crucial skill and the embodied practices of its use. At the heart of this study lies the nature of the relationship between the material culture of writing and socio-cultural identities in the Roman period.

Writing materials and instruments. --- Literacy --- Latin language --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Written Latin. --- HISTORY --- Literacy. --- Ancient --- General. --- Rome (Empire) --- Written Latin --- Written communication --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Writing --- Office equipment and supplies --- Materials and instruments --- PSYCHOLOGY --- Social Psychology. --- Rome (Empire). --- Writing materials and instruments

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This volume contains editions of sixty-five Greek, Demotic, Coptic and Arabic texts from Egypt, contributed as a token of friendship and respect by forty-six of Klaas Worp’s colleagues and co-authors upon his retirement from the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden in August 2008. The contents are as diverse as Klaas Worp’s own wide range of interests, and provide a vivid impression of life and culture in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The texts are written on papyrus, potsherds, parchment, paper and wood. They include both literary and documentary papyri and ostraca, and date from the third century BC to the eleventh century AD. They are published fully, most for the first time, with transcriptions and translations, and are accompanied by photographs.

Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Texts. --- Worp, K. A. --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Papyrus (Manuscrits) --- Textes --- Papyri, Egyptian --- Papyrus manuscripts --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- Texts --- Worp, Klaas Anthony --- Worp, Klaas A.,