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The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt
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.
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World
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.
Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca
This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Francisca Hoogendijk, containing fifty-six editions and re-editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca, dating from the twelfth century BCE until the eighth century CE.
Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums
Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture. The contributions within the volume reflect the breadth and collaborative nature of museum learning. They are written by Egyptologists, teachers, curators, museum educators, artists, and community partners working in a variety of institutions around the world—from public, children’s, and university museums, to classrooms and the virtual environment—who bring a broad scope of expertise to the conversation and offer inspiration for tackling a diverse range of challenges. Contributors foreground their first-hand experiences, pedagogical justifications, and reflective teaching practices, offering practical examples of ethical and equitable teaching with ancient Egyptian artifacts. Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums serves as a resource for teaching with Egyptian collections at any museum, and at any level. It will also be of great interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of museums, ancient Egypt, anthropology, and education.
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Documents such as papyri and inscriptions are essential to our knowledge of ancient history in a broad sense. This volume turns the attention to the texts themselves, and explores in an interdisciplinary way how people communicated with each other in antiquity.
New Approaches in Demotic Studies
The present volume collects current research on manuscripts written in the demotic language, which have recently been discovered in excavations or which can be found in museums worldwide. The manuscripts’ topics range from religion, law, and literature through ancient Egyptian linguistics to the history of economics as well as social history. Featured articles were first presented at the International Conference for Demotic Studies in Leipzig.
Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies
Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies. Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, th...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität
Texte sind im antiken Alltag in vielfältiger Weise materiell präsent: als in Stein gemeißelte Grabepigramme, auf Tonscherben gepinselte Abrechnungen oder in Buchrollen inszenierte Gedichte. Die Materialität der unterschiedlichen Medienformate macht Text überhaupt erst begreif- und lesbar. Darüber hinaus sind die materiellen Dimensionen eines Textes nicht nur untrennbar mit seinen Gebrauchskontexten und Sinnpotentialen verbunden. Die spezifische Semantik des Mediums prägt auch jeden Text und seine Rezeption entscheidend mit. Das Bewusstsein um die zentrale Bedeutung der Materialität zeigt sich in den schrifttragenden Artefakten selbst, spiegelt sich aber ebenso in metapoetischen und -medialen Reflexionen griechischer und römischer Autoren. Die sechzehn Beiträge des Bandes gehen dem komplexen Zusammenspiel von materieller Präsenz, medialer Semantik und literarischer Reflexion aus der Sicht der Klassischen Philologie, der Alten Geschichte, der Archäologie und der Rechtsgeschichte nach. Die Publikation zielt darauf ab, aktuelle Forschungsansätze zur Materialität antiker Texte zwischen Lebenswelt und Lesewelt in einen interdisziplinären Dialog zu setzen.
The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.
