Language & Texts

ISBN: 9783515094269
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
The Artemidorus Papyrus (P. Artemid.), first published in 2008,
is potentially the most significant new discovery in recent
years for a range of fields within Classics: the history of
drawing in the Greco-Roman world and mo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533537
Published by : Brepols
This volume publishes texts from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum and originally from the Archives of the funerary-workers of the Memphite Necropolis. The book is in two sections. The fi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788763526050
Published by : Museum Tusculanum Press
Drawing on a theoretical framework from cognitive linguistics and phenomenological anthropology, "Breathing Flesh" presents an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and its individual parts in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. Fr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042923140
Published by : Peeters Press
Marking systems such as masons marks, property marks, pot marks, quarry marks and team marks confront us with the large variation in the use of graphic signs. They are often similar to writing, yet they are not script in the strictest sense of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780970059192
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Volume: 47
A close examination of invisibility in the context of the Greco-Roman world, from the role invisibility enjoys as a literary motif to the ritual spells whose logos and praxis in magic papyri promise the individual that he will move about uns... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780970059185
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: American Studies in Papyrology
Volume: 46
Scholars and colleagues of Sarah Clackson honored her memory through a two-day symposium, "The Administration of Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt," held at Christ Church, Oxford, 25-26 September 2004. This rich and varie... .... Learn More

Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 38
Table of contents: In memoriam Anna Swiderek
(1925-2008); The Alpha and Omega of Hypallagma; A Heracleopolite
Land Lease of the Fifth Century; Citazione di giuristi romani in
BKT IX 201 (P. Berol. inv. 21295); Ju... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780631184317
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This volume presents virtually the whole of the historically significant inscriptions from the reigns of Ramesses III and his ephemeral father Setnakht. Many of the texts translated here (except for a handful of the more celebrated ones) have r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674025950
Published by : Harvard University Press
This study uses the extraordinarily rich resource of the Oxyrhychus Papyri to examine themes of early Christian identiy at Oxyrhychus. Luijendijk takes 324 AD as her cut-off point, meaning that much of the material dates from before the Edict o... .... Learn More