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The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia
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ISBN: 9780815354291 0815354290 9781351133449 9781351133470 Year: 2018 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even texts on luxury garments. Whereas earlier scholars in the field of Coptic Studies often focused on either Coptic or Greek, Van der Vliet argues that inscriptions in different languages that appear in the same space or on the same kind of objects should be examined together. In addition, he aims to combine the information from documentary texts, archaeological remains and inscriptions, in order to reconstruct the economic, social and religious life of monastic or civil communities. He practiced this methodology in his studies on the Fayum, Wadi al-Natrun, Sohag, Western Thebes and the region of Aswan and Northern Nubia, which are all included in this book.


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EK 8184 : projet international de sauvetage scientifique des Kellia = international project for the scientific rescue of Kellia
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ISBN: 9042912243 2877236897 Year: 2003 Publisher: Louvain Peeters


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Les Ostraca coptes de la TT 29 : autour du moine Frangé
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ISBN: 9789461360038 9789461360045 9461360037 9461360045 9789446130038 Year: 2010 Volume: 3 Publisher: Bruxelles CReA-Patrimoine


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Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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ISBN: 9780520267022 0520267028 0520275799 9786613277695 0520948521 1283277697 9780520948525 9781283277693 661327769X Year: 2011 Volume: 69 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world-that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution-has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people-from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan-used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.

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Written communication --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Printed ephemera --- Graffiti --- Ostraka --- Coptic inscriptions --- Syriac language --- History --- Ostraka. --- History. --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Ephemera, Printed --- Ephemeral printing --- Printing, Ephemeral --- Street literature --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Graffiti culture --- Folklore --- Inscriptions --- Street art --- Inscriptions, Coptic --- Written communication - Egypt - History --- Written communication - Middle East - History --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt --- Printed ephemera - History --- Graffiti - History --- Coptic inscriptions - Egypt --- Syriac language - Texts --- afghanistan. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- aramaic. --- britain. --- coptic inscriptions. --- documents. --- egypt. --- ephemera. --- graffiti. --- greek. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic east. --- history. --- informal writing. --- latin. --- linguistics. --- literacy. --- manuscripts. --- middle east. --- nonfiction. --- ostraka. --- papyri. --- papyrus. --- potsherds. --- roman egypt. --- roman empire. --- roman history. --- roman near east. --- slavery. --- smyrna. --- writing. --- written communication. --- Communication écrite --- Égypte --- Antiquité --- Moyen-Orient --- Sources --- Communication écrite --- Égypte --- Antiquité

Coptology : past, present, and future : Studies in honour of Rodolphe Kasser
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ISBN: 906831646X 9789068316469 Year: 1994 Volume: 61 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,

Catalogue of the Coptic Inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum (I. Khartoum Copt.)
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ISBN: 9042912510 9789042912519 Year: 2003 Volume: 121 Publisher: Leuven : Peeters : Departement oosterse studies,

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