The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt: New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period(35 Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava)

The volume The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt contains nine contributions from well-known papyrologists, Egyptologists, archaeologists and technical specialists. They discuss the materiality of ancient writing and writing supports in various ways through methodological considerations and through practical case studies from the early Pharaonic to the Late Antique periods in Egypt, including Greek and Egyptian papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. The articles in this volume present new approaches to the study of textual material and scribal practice, especially in the light of the ongoing development of digital techniques that uncover new information from ancient writing materials. The aim of the book is to encourage researchers of ancient texts to consider the benefits of using these new methods and technological resources.

Table of Contents:
Preface Notes on Contributors Figures Abbreviated Literature Editorial Notation 1 The Material Authority of Written Texts in Pharaonic Egypt  Christopher Eyre 2 The Platypus Paradox: An Archaeological Approach to Ancient Egyptian Writing Practices  Massimiliano S. Pinarello 3 Telling Them by Their Hands: What Palaeography Has to Offer Prosopography  Rodney Ast 4 The Body of the King and of the Goddess: Materiality in and through Manuals for Pharaoh from Tebtunis  Susanne Töpfer 5 Material Matters: Documentary Papyri and Ostraca in Late Ramesside Thebes  Ben Haring 6 Writing on Ostraca: Considerations of Material Aspects  Julia Lougovaya 7 Ceramic Supports and Their Relation to Texts in Two Groups of Ostraca from the Fayum  Clementina Caputo and James M.S. Cowey 8 Evolving Epigraphic Standards in the Field: Documenting Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egyptian Graffiti through Photogrammetry at Elkab  Luigi Prada and Paul D. Wordsworth 9 Revealing the Material World of Ancient Writing: Digital Techniques and Theoretical Considerations  Kathryn E. Piquette Bibliography Index of Egyptian Words Index of Greek Words Index of Sources Index of Subjects

About the Author :
Francisca Hoogendijk, MA in Classical Languages and Culture (1980) and PhD in Greek Papyrology (2008), both Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Greek Papyrology at the Leiden Papyrological Institute. She has published Greek papyri from different collections and co-ordinates the on-going Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten. Steffie M. T. van Gompel, ResMA in Egyptology (2012), Leiden University, conducts research on demotic marriage settlements as a PhD student at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.