The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts / / ed. by Marilina Betrò, Michael Friedrich, Cécile Michel
| The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts / / ed. by Marilina Betrò, Michael Friedrich, Cécile Michel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2024] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 379 p.) |
| Collana | Studies in Manuscript Cultures |
| Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Inscription
manuscript text-image relations written artefacts |
| ISBN | 9783111360805 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Towards a Holistic Study of Written Artefacts in Ancient History -- Methodological Considerations -- Some Mesopotamian Challenges: A History Based on Tablets Unevenly Distributed in Time and Space -- Epigraphy, Archaeology, and our Understanding of the Mycenaean World -- Early Uses of Writing -- Material, Spatial, and Social Contexts of Early Writing: Egypt and China -- Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India -- Material Features -- Writing on Wood in Hittite Anatolia -- The Mittanian Cuneiform Documents: The Interplay between Content, Language, Material, Format, and Sealing Practices -- Some Turin Papyri Revisited: A Look at Material Features and Scribal Practices -- Co-presence of Written Artefacts -- Experiencing Inscriptions in Space: Extended Inscriptions of the Early New Kingdom (Qenamun - Useramun - Rekhmire) -- The Scholar in His House: Scribal Material in Context in Late Uruk Private Houses -- Cultural Encounters -- Bakhtin, Gramsci, and the Materiality of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs: When the 'Official' Culture Leaks into the 'Folk' Domain -- The 'He' Tribe from Serabit el Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing: Can the Subaltern ... Write? -- Contributors -- General Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996582065803316 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Forsaken Relics : Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times
| Forsaken Relics : Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times |
| Autore | Buono Alessandro |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Disciplina | 930.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MiniaciGianluca
AnguissolaAnna |
| Collana | Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS) Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Ritual
Abandonment of property |
| ISBN | 9798888571156 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- TOC -- Contributors -- Preface -- Appropriating Places -- Chapter 1: The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses -- Chapter 2: Roman euocatio, or how to get possession of a deserted city -- Chapter 3: Reclaiming the funery space: The protection and re-use of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia -- Redefining Abandonment -- Chapter 4: Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps -- Chapter 5: Depopulating landscapes: Methodology and the materiality of archives in Calabria -- Chapter 6: Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices -- Claiming Things -- Chapter 7: After death: Rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt -- Chapter 8: How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus's Oration VIII -- Chapter 9: How to claim things with rites. Care for the dead and inheritance rights in early modern Europe (and beyond) -- Afterword -- Chapter 10: Biographies of place and the significance of place-value. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911052919503321 |
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| Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2024 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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