The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt ― New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period

The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt offers nine articles with new approaches to the material aspects of writing, writing supports, and scribal practice from Pharaonic to Late Antique Egypt. Case studies include Greek and Egyptian papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. (40w)

Francisca Hoogendijk, MA in Classical Languages and Culture (1980) and PhD in Greek Papyrology (2008), both Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Greek Papyrology at the Leiden Papyrological Institute. She has published Greek papyri from different collections and co-ordinates the on-going Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Agypten.

Steffie M. T. van Gompel, ResMA in Egyptology (2012), Leiden University, conducts research on demotic marriage settlements as a PhD student at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.