The Elephantine papyri in English. Three millennia of cross-cultural continuity and change

The Elephantine papyri in English. Three millennia of cross-cultural continuity and change.

PORTEN Bezalel

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Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui 22. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1996. First edition. In-4, xvii & 621 pages, 11 plates. Original cloth with dust-jacket, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Jean-Pierre Corteggiani. Contents: 1. Hieratic texts / Gu_nter Vittmann -- 2. Aramaic texts / Bezalel Porten -- 3. Demotic texts / Cary J. Martin -- 4. Greek texts / J. Joel Farber -- 5. Coptic texts / Leslie S.B. MacCoull, Sarah J. Clackson -- 6. Arabic texts / Simon Hopkins -- 7. Latin texts / Ranon Katzoff. Abstract: This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Coptic, spanning a period of 3000 years. The documents include letters and legal contracts from family and other archives, and are thus an invaluable source of knowledge for scholars of varied disciplines, such as epistolography, law, society, religion, language and onomastics. The volume includes seven sections, each containing carefully translated and extensively annotated documents of one language group. Excellent cross-referencing allows the user to trace forerunners and successors. Each section is preceded by an introduction; the Aramaic, Demotic and Greek sections are concluded with a prosopography. The book closes with a select tropical index. Language: English. Relevant subjects: Egypt: New Kingdom, 3rd IP, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Medieval & Modern Egypt, Language, Texts & Writing, Demotic Studies, Coptic Studies, Papyrology, Levant, Semitic Epigraphy and Languages.

Language: English.

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