The Oxford handbook of papyrology / edited by Roger S. Bagnall.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description
xxi, 688 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

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Related name
Series
Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
Notes
Series from jacket flap.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Writing materials in the ancient world / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
  • The finds of papyri : the archaeology of papyrology / Hélène Cuvigny
  • The history of the discipline / James G. Keenan
  • Conservation of ancient papyrus materials / Jaakko Frösén
  • Greek and Latin writing in the papyri / Guglielmo Cavallo
  • The Greek and Latin languages in the papyri / Eleanor Dickey
  • Abbreviations and symbols / Nikolaos Gonis
  • Practical help : chronology, geography, measures, currency, names, prosopogoraphy, and technical vocabulary / Roger S. Bagnall
  • Editing a papyrus / Paul Schubert
  • Archives and dossiers / Katelijn Vandorpe
  • The ancient book / William A. Johnson
  • Papyrology and ancient literature / Timothy Renner
  • The special case of Herculaneum / David Sider
  • Education in the papyri / Raffaella Cribiore
  • Mathematics, science, and medicine in the papyri / Alexander Jones
  • The range of documentary texts : types and categories / Bernhard Palme
  • The multilingual environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt : Egyptian, Aramaic, and Greek documentation / Dorothy J. Thompson
  • The multilingual environment of late antique Egypt : Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Persian documentation / Jean-Luc Fournet
  • Arabic papyri and Islamic Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • The papyrology of the Near East / Jean Gascou-- Writing histories from the papyri / Todd M. Hickey
  • Geography and administration in Egypt (332 BCE-642 CE) / Maria Rosaria Falivene
  • Law in Graeco-Roman Egypt : Hellenization, fusion, Romanization / Uri Yiftach-Firanko
  • Egyptian religion and magic in the papyri / Willy Clarysse
  • The papyri and early Christianity / David G. Martinez
  • Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the papyri / Cornelia Römer
  • The future of papyrology / Peter van Minnen.
Other title(s)
Handbook of papyrology
ISBN
  • 9780195178388
  • 0195178386
LCCN
2008031679
OCLC
236082531
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