Using Ostraca in the Ancient World
New Discoveries and Methodologies
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2020
VI, 245 pages
978-3-11-071295-7 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout 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.
Reviews / Votes
"This remarkable volume provides the richest introduction ever offered toone of the most widespread but understudied writing technologies of the
ancient world." Roger S. Bagnall in: Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science, 2/2021.
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New Discoveries and Methodologies
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New Discoveries and Methodologies
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Clementina Caputo
, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
Julia Lougovaya
, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
