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The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Within the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Giovanna Vasco   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation of the Traditional Grain Mills in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt: Study of Mechanical Systems and Restoration

open access: yesHeritage, 2018
This paper is the first study of traditional grain mills in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, to ensure the sustainability of these traditional production systems while retaining their original function.
Yasser Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Blumell and Wayment\u27s Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources (Book Review)

open access: yes, 2016
A review of Blumell, L.H., & Wayment, T.A. (Eds.). (2015). Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 756 pp. $89.95.
Baumstarck, Joseph, Jr.
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Coptic Texts from a Private Collection in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The present paper edits for the first time two Coptic objects from a private collection in Sweden: A tax-receipt for poll-tax (diagraphon) from Western Thebes dated to June 24th, 724 and a wooden board with an unidentified Coptic ...
Müller, Matthias
core   +1 more source

Lived place, embodied remembering, and narrative belonging in Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House and Pauline Kaldas's “A House in Old Cairo”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House (2000) and Pauline Kaldas's “The House in Old Cairo” (2006) allow a comparative analysis on place dynamics and the psycho‐spatial aspects of subjectivity and belonging. This article builds on the premise that place has an ontological implication for its occupants as it allocates a portion of space for them ...
Daniella Krisztán
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural-philosophic basements of temple art of Egypt

open access: yesНеофилология, 2015
Cultural-philosophic and essential basements of Coptic (Egyptian) temple creation and historical suppositions of Egypt spiritual-artistic language are reviewed.
Mikhail Viktorovich NIKOLSKIY
doaj  

Critical Edition and Philological Analysis of Isa 51–52 based on Coptic Manuscript sa 52 (M 568) and Other Coptic Manuscripts in the Sahidic Dialect and the Greek Text of the Septuagint

open access: yesThe Biblical Annals
This article constitutes a critical edition, translation and philological analysis of Isa 51–52 based on Coptic manuscript sa 52 and other available manuscripts in the Sahidic dialect.
Tomasz Bartłomiej Bąk
doaj   +1 more source

Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt.

open access: yesAl-'Usur al-Wusta, 2019
Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt. New Texts from Ancient Cultures 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), xxiv + 287 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13048-1. Price: $90.00 (cloth).
Marie Legendre
doaj   +1 more source

Gendered Activity and Jesus's Saying Not to Worry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The flowers’ activity in the saying of Jesus about anxiety indicates an interest in cloth production across the socio-economic spectrum. I demonstrate that wool-working is a central feature of the multiform tradition of this saying and that spinning in ...
Janelle Peters
core   +1 more source

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
wiley   +1 more source

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