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This volume is the first work devoted to the contacts between Latin and Coptic in late antique and Byzantine Egypt. It follows in the footsteps of a renewed interest in this multilingual and multicultural area, but it approaches an untapped theme aiming to show that it can profitably be explored. The papers examine different type of evidence on the basis of a multi-perspective approach. Some of them deal with wide-ranging issues, such as the presence of Latin in monastic or scholastic contexts alongside local varieties, some others deal with specific subjects, such as the use of Latin in a certain milieux or in specific documents. All papers show that the contact between languages, scripts and cultures took many forms depending on various factors. Questo volume è la prima opera dedicata ai contatti tra latino e copto nell’Egitto tardoantico e bizantino. Esso si pone nel solco di un rinnovato interesse per quest’area multilingue e multiculturale, ma affronta un tema inesplorato con l’obiettivo di dimostrare che questo può essere indagato con profitto. I contributi esaminano fonti di diverso tipo sulla base di un approccio pluridisciplinare. Alcuni di essi affrontano temi di ampio respiro, come la presenza del latino in contesti monastici o scolastici accanto a varietà locali, mentre altri trattano questioni circoscritte, come l’uso del latino in determinati ambienti o in specifici documenti. Tutti i contributi mostrano che il contatto tra lingue, scritture e culture ha assunto forme diverse a seconda di vari fattori.

latin, coptic, late antique and Byzantine Egypt

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This volume is the first work devoted to the contacts between Latin and Coptic in late antique and Byzantine Egypt. It follows in the footsteps of a renewed interest in this multilingual and multicultural area, but it approaches an untapped theme aiming to show that it can profitably be explored. The papers examine different type of evidence on the basis of a multi-perspective approach. Some of them deal with wide-ranging issues, such as the presence of Latin in monastic or scholastic contexts alongside local varieties, some others deal with specific subjects, such as the use of Latin in a certain milieux or in specific documents. All papers show that the contact between languages, scripts and cultures took many forms depending on various factors. Questo volume è la prima opera dedicata ai contatti tra latino e copto nell’Egitto tardoantico e bizantino. Esso si pone nel solco di un rinnovato interesse per quest’area multilingue e multiculturale, ma affronta un tema inesplorato con l’obiettivo di dimostrare che questo può essere indagato con profitto. I contributi esaminano fonti di diverso tipo sulla base di un approccio pluridisciplinare. Alcuni di essi affrontano temi di ampio respiro, come la presenza del latino in contesti monastici o scolastici accanto a varietà locali, mentre altri trattano questioni circoscritte, come l’uso del latino in determinati ambienti o in specifici documenti. Tutti i contributi mostrano che il contatto tra lingue, scritture e culture ha assunto forme diverse a seconda di vari fattori.

Classical texts --- latin, coptic, late antique and Byzantine Egypt

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Painting --- anno 500-1199 --- Sinaï --- Icons, Byzantine --- Icons --- Catalogs --- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) --- Catalogs. --- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai). --- Icons, Byzantine - Egypt - Sinai - Catalogs --- Icons - Sinai - Catalogs --- Icônes

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The richly illustrated book presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century, tracing its transition, from coins that closely resembled Byzantine issues with imperial images, to purely aniconic specimens with inscriptions in Arabic. This so-called Arab-Byzantine series sheds light on a pivotal period in the history of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, as formerly Byzantine provinces were slowly Arabicized and Islamicized following the Arab conquests of the 630s and 640s. The historical introduction, which includes descriptions of all the basic types, is followed by a catalogue of the collection of Arab-Byzantine coins at Dumbarton Oaks, published here for the first time

Coins, Arab --- Coins, Byzantine --- Dumbarton Oaks --- Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection --- Byzantine coins --- Arab coins --- Harvard University. --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library --- Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art --- Coins, Arab - Syria --- Coins, Arab - Egypt --- Coins, Byzantine - Syria --- Coins, Byzantine - Egypt --- Coins, Arab - Catalogs --- Coins, Byzantine - Catalogs --- Monnaies arabes --- Monnaies byzantines --- Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection (Washington, D.C.) --- Syrie --- Égypte

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The volume contains an edition of c. 1,300 ostraca excavated in Abu Mina, Egypt, under the directorship of Peter Grossmann. Most of these ostraca comprise a partially surviving record of the pickings of grapes and of wine deliveries in the first half of the seventh century AD, before the Arab conquest in 642. Also, a small number contains some Christian texts, writings on pots or flasks, designs and writing exercises. They provide information on the community, the economical and agricultural activities, the prosopography and onomastics of this pilgrimage centre. This volume will be of interest

Ostraka --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Abū Mīnā (Extinct city) --- Greek inscriptions --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Abu Mena (Extinct city) --- Abu Mina Saint Menas (Extinct city) --- Abu Mina (Extinct city) --- Abou Mena (Ville ancienne) --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Inscriptions grecques --- Egypte --- History --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Sources --- Byzantine Egypt. --- Economy. --- Edition. --- Greek. --- Ostraca. --- Abou Mina (Égypte) --- Égypte