The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt: New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Figures......Page 11
Abbreviated Literature......Page 13
Editorial Notation......Page 16
Chapter 1 The Material Authority of Written Texts in Pharaonic Egypt......Page 17
Chapter 2 The Platypus Paradox: An Archaeological Approach to Ancient Egyptian Writing Practices......Page 28
Chapter 3 Telling Them by Their Hands: What Palaeography Has to Offer Prosopography......Page 43
Chapter 4 The Body of the King and of the Goddess: Materiality in and through Manuals for Pharaoh from Tebtunis......Page 51
Chapter 5 Material Matters: Documentary Papyri and Ostraca in Late Ramesside Thebes......Page 59
Chapter 6 Writing on Ostraca: Considerations of Material Aspects......Page 68
Chapter 7 Ceramic Supports and Their Relation to Texts in Two Groups of Ostraca from the Fayum......Page 78
Chapter 8 Evolving Epigraphic Standards in the Field: Documenting Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egyptian Graffiti through Photogrammetry at Elkab......Page 92
Chapter 9 Revealing the Material World of Ancient Writing: Digital Techniques and Theoretical Considerations......Page 110
Bibliography......Page 135
Indexes......Page 149
Index of Egyptian Words......Page 151
Index of Greek Words......Page 153
Index of Sources......Page 155
Index of Subjects......Page 158