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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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This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal exercises ( Kemit ), and copies of tomb inscriptions. Each ostracon is presented with photographs, facsimile drawings and hieroglyphic transcriptions, as well as translations and brief philological commentaries. Many of the texts can be linked to the village of Deir el-Medina on internal evidence, and the book offers new data to scholars working with material from this famous site.
Ostraka --- Egyptian literature --- Didactic literature, Egyptian --- Egyptian philology. --- Translations into English. --- Fitzwilliam Museum --- Egypt --- Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt) --- History --- Antiquities --- Egyptian philology --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Egyptian didactic literature --- Translations into English --- Cambridge. --- University of Cambridge. --- Dayr al-Madīnah Site (Egypt) --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر --- مَصر --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Sources --- Cambridge. University. Fitzwilliam Museum --- University of Cambridge. Fitzwilliam Museum --- Antiquities.
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