The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East
In chapter 1, we looked at a unique instance of the survival on a large scale of a type of everyday writing usually lost in its entirety or at best preserved only in isolated patches, the informal inscription, or graffito. I now look more broadly at the implications of archacology for our understand...
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| Published in | Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Vol. 69; p. 27 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
University of California Press
06.12.2010
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| Edition | 1 |
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| Summary: | In chapter 1, we looked at a unique instance of the survival on a large scale of a type of everyday writing usually lost in its entirety or at best preserved only in isolated patches, the informal inscription, or graffito. I now look more broadly at the implications of archacology for our understanding of the patterns of usage of a broader category of writing, documents of everyday life in the Hellenistic world on papyrus and parchment.
Any thoughtful archaeologist can and will tell us that what comes out of the ground, even in a well-run excavation, is nothing like a |
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| ISBN: | 0520267028 9780520267022 |