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Author:

Bagnall, Roger S.

Title:

Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / Roger S. Bagnall.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Written communication--Egypt--History.
Written communication--Middle East--History.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)--Egypt.
Printed ephemera--History.
Graffiti--History.
Ostraka.
Coptic inscriptions--Egypt.
Syriac language--Texts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-174) and index.

Contents:

Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna -- The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East -- Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt -- Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?

Series:

The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Sather classical lectures ; v. 69.

ISBN:

0520267028 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520267022 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)642351602

LCCN:

2010023442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)