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Caputo Clementina |
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Using Ostraca in the Ancient World : new discoveries and methodologies / / edited by Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya |
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De Gruyter, 2021 |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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Materiale Textkulturen ; ; 32 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ostraca |
Ostraca - Egypt |
HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt |
Egypt Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- I. Documentation and Interpretation of Ostraca as Archaeological Objects -- Papyri and Ostraca as Archaeological Objects: The Importance of Context -- Pottery Sherds for Writing: An Overview of the Practice -- Photography of Papyri and Ostraca -- II. Cultural Contexts and Practices -- The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns? -- Greek Literary Ostraca Revisited -- III. Ostraca in Context: Case Studies -- Hi Aḥuṭab: Aramaic Letter Ostraca from Elephantine -- Ostraca and Tituli Picti of Samut North and Bi’r Samut (Eastern Desert of Egypt): Some Reflections on Find Location -- Demotic Ostraca and Their Use in Egyptian Temple Context from the Greco-Roman Period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit -- “Forgive Me, Because I Could Not Find Papyrus”: The Use and Distribution of Ostraca in Late Antique Western Thebes -- Contributors -- Indices |
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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 |
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