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The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids / Arietta Papaconstantinou [editor].

Contributor(s): Papaconstantinou, Arietta
Language: English Publisher: Burlington : Ashgate, 2010.Description: x, 240 p.; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780754665366 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Multilingualism -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Bilingualism -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Languages in contact -- Egypt -- History | Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) -- Dialects -- Egypt | Coptic language -- History -- To 1500 | Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) | Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) | Egypt -- Languages -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 306.44/60932
Contents:
Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofía Torallas Tovar -- Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse -- Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn -- Case studies in language use in a multilingual society. What's in a sign? translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman -- Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat -- Toujours honneur au grec? À propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boudhors -- Language choice in the Qurra archive / Sebastian Richter -- Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Egypt and Sudan Shelves RC1.MUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000211428
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Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofía Torallas Tovar -- Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse -- Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn -- Case studies in language use in a multilingual society. What's in a sign? translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman -- Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat -- Toujours honneur au grec? À propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boudhors -- Language choice in the Qurra archive / Sebastian Richter -- Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.

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