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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154689403321

Titolo

The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids / / edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-88537-5

1-315-23821-7

1-351-88538-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

PapaconstantinouArietta

Disciplina

306.4460932

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500

Bilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500

Languages in contact - Egypt - History - To 1500

Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) - Dialects - Egypt

Coptic language - History - To 1500

Coptic manuscripts (Papyri)

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)

Egypt Languages History To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di contenuto

1. Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt /  Sofía Torallas Tovar -- 2. Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse -- 3. Coptic or Greek? : bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; annotated and edited for publication by Arietta Papaconstantinou -- 4. Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- 5. What's in a sign? : translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman -- 6. Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat -- 7. Toujours honneur au grec? : Á propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boud'hors -- 8. Language choice in the Qurra Dossier / Tonio Sebastian Richter -- 9. Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.