The demotic ostraca
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Publisher: Brill Archive
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Miriam Lichtheim
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. D. Ray
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9780856982170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume publishes the demotic ostraca discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara more than thirty years ago. This site, with its complex of galleries and temple buildings, has brought new insights into Egyptian art and architecture, as well as important information about the economy and organisation of what has turned out to be a cosmopolitan area. The majority of the four hundred or more ostraca published in this volume are written on potsherds, but there are also limestone and gypsum plaster fragments and writing-boards. Collectively, they preserve two different types of text: firstly jar-labels or dockets originally written upon a complete vessel in order to describe its contents or to give directions for its delivery, and secondly compositions written upon a sherd that had already been broken from its parent vessel, or a flake of limestone or some similar material. The texts include literary and magical compositions and a range of texts which argue for the existence of a scribal school of some kind. There is also a short oracular question, various dedications to the gods of the Necropolis, an appeal to the Mother of the Apis, lists of payments and divine images, and a document of self-sale or self-hire which is probably the earliest such document so far recognised. Some of the texts date from the Achaemenid period but the majority are undoubtedly Ptolemaic with some preponderance to the first half of the dynasty.
Author: Nur el-Din
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974-12
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9004669841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. A. A. Nur el-Din
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9789004040182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mohamed Abd el-Halim Ahmad Nur-el-Din
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Published: 1976*
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9004439005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a Festschrift in honour of Francisca Hoogendijk, containing fifty-six editions and re-editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca, dating from the twelfth century BCE until the eighth century CE.
Author: Girgis Mattha
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Published: 1945
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clementina Caputo
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 3110712903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.