Observing the scribe at work : scribal practice in the ancient world / edited by Rodney Ast [and 4 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ast, Rodney, editor.

Series:

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; v.301.

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 0777-978X ; 301

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scribes--History.

Scribes.

Scribes--Rome.

Scribes--Egypt.

History.

Egypt.

Scriptoria.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 346 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2021.

Contents:

Observing the Scribe at Work p. 1 / Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

Ilimiiku of Ugarit, l'homme et i'æuvre: An Enquiry into a Scribe's Authorial Role p. 9 / Nick Wyatt

The Role of the Scribe in the Composition of Written Correspondence in Israel and Judah p. 21 / Gareth Wearne

Two Groups of Deir el-Medina Ostraca Recording Duty Rosters and Daily Deliveries Composed with Identity Marks p. 45 / Daniel Soliman

How Many Scribes in P.Berol. 13270? New Considerations about the Handwriting p. 63 / Valeria Tezzon

Compositional Practice and Contractual Authority in the Patermouthis Archive p. 71 / Rodney Ast

Scribes and Other Writers in the Petra Papyri p. 101 / Marja Vierros

The Problems of Anonymous Scribes at Wadi Sarga p. 117 / Jennifer Cromwell

Theodore the Stoudite and the Stoudios Scriptorium in Ninth-Century Byzantium p. 139 / Ken Parry

Mirroring Byzantium: Scribes, Dukes, and Leadership in Pre-Norman Southern Italy p. 155 / Norman Underwood

Observing Neo-Assyrian Scribes at Work p. 177 / Jacob Lauinger

Wenamun: Directions in Palaeography and Structure. A Preliminary Survey p. 187 / Anthony Spalinger and Tasha Dobbin-Bennett

Inscriptional Copies from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period p. 219 / Julia Lougovaya

Professional Scribes and Letter-Cutters in Archaic Greece p. 241 / Elena Martín González

Saving the Ivory Tower from Oblivion: The Role of Scribes in Preserving Alexandrian Scholarship p. 255 / Francesca Schironi

Accounts and Scribal Practice in Dime in the Roman Period p. 271 / Marie-Pierre Chaufrey

Text and Paratext in Documentary Papyri from Roman Egypt p. 281 / Malcolm Choat

The Use of Abbreviations in Duplicate Documents from Roman Egypt p. 299 / Korshi Dosoo

Scribal Process and Cognitive Philology in Didymus the Blind's Lectures on Psalms (Tura Codex V) p. 325 / Gregg Schwendner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789042942868

904294286X

OCLC:

1264650530

Publisher Number:

9789042942868