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Ostraka --- Drawing, Egyptian --- Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, --- Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, --- Art collections --- Fitzwilliam Museum --- Fitzwilliam Museum. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Antiquities

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Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world-that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution-has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people-from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan-used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.

Written communication --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Printed ephemera --- Graffiti --- Ostraka --- Coptic inscriptions --- Syriac language --- History --- Ostraka. --- History. --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Ephemera, Printed --- Ephemeral printing --- Printing, Ephemeral --- Street literature --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Graffiti culture --- Folklore --- Inscriptions --- Street art --- Inscriptions, Coptic --- Written communication - Egypt - History --- Written communication - Middle East - History --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt --- Printed ephemera - History --- Graffiti - History --- Coptic inscriptions - Egypt --- Syriac language - Texts --- afghanistan. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- aramaic. --- britain. --- coptic inscriptions. --- documents. --- egypt. --- ephemera. --- graffiti. --- greek. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic east. --- history. --- informal writing. --- latin. --- linguistics. --- literacy. --- manuscripts. --- middle east. --- nonfiction. --- ostraka. --- papyri. --- papyrus. --- potsherds. --- roman egypt. --- roman empire. --- roman history. --- roman near east. --- slavery. --- smyrna. --- writing. --- written communication. --- Communication écrite --- Égypte --- Antiquité --- Moyen-Orient --- Sources

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The volume The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt 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. The 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.

Writing --- Writing materials and instruments --- Imaging systems in archaeology --- Archaeological imaging systems --- Archaeology --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Office equipment and supplies --- History --- Social aspects --- Materials and instruments --- Imaging systems in archaeology. --- Writing materials and instruments. --- Writing. --- Social aspects. --- To 1500. --- Egypt. --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Egyptian language --- Ostraka --- Conferences - Meetings --- Griekse taalkunde --- Hamitische taalkunde --- Handschriften. Epigrafie. Paleografie --- inscripties --- ostraka --- papyrologie --- teksten [soorten documenten] --- Egyptisch --- Egypte --- To 1500 --- Classical Greek language --- Hamitic languages --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- inscriptions --- papyrology --- texts [documents] --- Egyptian [ancient] --- Egypt --- Afroasiatic languages

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This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. This is the second volume of ostraka from the excavations Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Egypt. It adds 491 items to the growing corpus of primary texts from the site. In addition to the catalog, the introductory sections make important contributions to understanding the role of textual practice in the life of a pre-modern small town. Issues addressed include tenancy, the administration of water, governance, the identification of individuals in the archaeological record, the management of estates, personal handwriting, and the uses of personal names. Additionally, the chapter "Ceramic Fabrics and Shapes” by Clementina Caputo breaks new ground in the treatment of these inscribed shards as both written text and physical object. This volume will be of interest to specialists in Roman-period Egypt as well as to scholars of literacy and writing in the ancient world and elsewhere.

Ostraka --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Written communication --- Greek language --- Egyptian language --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Greek inscriptions --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Demotic inscriptions --- Egyptian inscriptions --- Hieratic inscriptions --- Hieroglyphic inscriptions (Egyptian) --- Inscriptions, Demotic --- Inscriptions, Hieratic --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic (Egyptian) --- Trimithis (Extinct city) --- Amheida Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Trimethis (Extinct city) --- Social life and customs --- Antiquities