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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
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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
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Blumell and Wayment\u27s Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources (Book Review)
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]
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
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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
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Cultural-philosophic basements of temple art of Egypt
Cultural-philosophic and essential basements of Coptic (Egyptian) temple creation and historical suppositions of Egypt spiritual-artistic language are reviewed.
Mikhail Viktorovich NIKOLSKIY
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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
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Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt.
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
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Gendered Activity and Jesus's Saying Not to Worry [PDF]
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
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
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
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