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Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.
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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, prosopography, 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 Ptolematic 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 papryi and early Christianity -- David G. Martinez
Manichaeism and gnosticism in the papryi -- Cornelia Römer
The future of papyrology -- Peter van Minnen.
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Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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