商品簡介
Arabic letters on papyrus have few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between words, and in most cases a low degree of graphical structuring, says Grob, but the original readers could comprehend them because they knew what to look for. She explains the unwritten rules and norms to help modern scholars read and understand them. The correspondence she considers can be private or business, but are from a distinct sender to a distinct recipient. She discusses numbers, materials, and distribution over time; formulary; pragmatics; language; and script and layout. She has not indexed her work. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Eva Mira Grob, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich and Universitat Zurich?, Switzerland.
