Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / Roger S. Bagnall.
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TextSeries: Sather classical lectures ; v. 69.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520948525
- 0520948521
- 1283277697
- 9781283277693
- 9786613277695
- 661327769X
- Written communication -- Egypt -- History
- Written communication -- Middle East -- History
- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt
- Printed ephemera -- History
- Graffiti -- History
- Ostraka
- Coptic inscriptions -- Egypt
- Syriac language -- Texts
- Communication écrite -- Égypte -- Histoire
- Papyrus grecs -- Égypte
- Publications éphémères -- Histoire
- Graffiti -- Histoire
- Ostraca
- Syriaque (Langue) -- Textes
- Inscriptions coptes -- Égypte
- ostraka
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
- Coptic inscriptions
- Graffiti
- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
- Ostraka
- Printed ephemera
- Syriac language
- Written communication
- Egypt
- Middle East
- 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
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- P211.3.E3 B34 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index.
Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna -- The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East -- Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt -- Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?
Print version record.
Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, the author, a leading papyrologist, argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized previously.
English.
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