The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids

Publication Data

• Title The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
• Contributor Arietta Papaconstantinou
• Publisher Ashgate
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Farnham
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Multilingualism :: Egypt :: History :: To 1500
• Bilingualism :: Egypt :: History :: To 1500
• Languages in contact :: Egypt :: History :: To 1500
• 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 1500
• Egypt

The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. ISBN 9780754665366. Published by Ashgate in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.