The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou.
• Other Names: Papaconstantinou, Arietta
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4460932; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351885379; 1351885375
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.