the multilingual experience in egypt, from the ptolemies to the abbasids

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The MulTilingual experience in egypT,
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The Multilingual Experience in
Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the
Abbasids

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1988, to be identified as the editor of this work.

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The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the oAbbasids.
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1. Multilingualism – Egypt – History – to 1500. 2. Bilingualism – Egypt – History –
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to 1500. 3. Languages in contact o– Egypt – History – to 1500. 4. Egypt – Languages
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– History--to 1500. 5. Greek lae.nguage, Hellenistic (300 B.c.–600 A.D.) – Dialects
– Egypt. 6. coptic language –at History – to 1500. 7. Manuscripts, coptic (Papyri)
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8. Manuscripts, Greek (Paphyri). i. Papaconstantinou, Arietta. ii. title.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
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List of Contributors o ix
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Introduction      gat 1
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1   Linguistic Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt      17
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2  Bilingual Papyrological Archives      s 47
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Willy Clarysse
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3  Coptic or Greek? Bilingualism in the Papyri    e. c 73
Sarah J. Clackson † annotated and edited for pubatlication
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4  Multilingual Archives and Documents imn  Post-Conquest Egypt      105
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5  What’s in a Sign? Translating Filihation in the Demotic Magical Papyri     127
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6  Early Coptic Epistolograpchy      153
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7  Toujours honneur aau grec? À propos d’un papyrus gréco-copte  
de la région thémb aine      179
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8  Languagheg Choice in the Qurra Dossier      189
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9  Aoristophanes Son of Johannes: An Eighth-Century Bilingual Scribe? 
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e.A Study of Graphic Bilingualism      221
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List of Abbreviations
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APF Archiv für Papyrusforschung g
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BASP Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists s
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BSAC Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie copte
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JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology e.
JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orgiaetnt
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MIFAO Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie
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ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrasphik
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Abbreviations of editions of papyri are given acmc ording to the ‘Checklist of Editions of
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Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Osctraca and Tablets’ (http://scriptorium.lib.
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duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist.html), and ‘Thate Checklist of Arabic Documents’ (http://
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List of Contributors
Anne Boud’hors is a research fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes,

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section Grecque, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Woith a
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background in Classics, she works on the cataloguing and editing of Coptic manue.scripts
and documents. Her main fields of interest are Biblical texts, the sermons of Sghatenoute,
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codicology and ostraca. She also teaches Coptic at various institutions. s
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Malcolm Choat is a lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Division of
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Humanities. He studied Classics (including Ancient Greek and Le.atin) and Ancient
History at the University of Queensland (1989–1993), before uantdertaking doctoral
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studies at Macquarie (1994–2000). Subsequently, he taught sand researched in the
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School of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney (2000–2002), before holding a
Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2003–2006). Hme now teaches at Macquarie
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in Ptolemaic Egypt, Early Christianity, and Coptic Studei.ecs.
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Sarah J. Clackson was Lady Wallis Budge Researcshh Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s
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College, Cambridge until her untimely death in 2003. She is the author of Coptic and
Greek texts relating to the Hermopolite monasterym of Apa Apollo (2000), and It is our father
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who writes: Orders from the monastery of Apoe.llco at Bawit (2007).
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Willy Clarysse received his PhD in Leuvhen in 1975 with the edition of a group of early
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Jennifer Cromwell is Laady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology at
University College, Oxmf ord. Her research primarily concerns Coptic documentary texts,
palaeography, and thceo nature of scribal practice and training.
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Jacco Dielemanh greceived his PhD in 2003 in Egyptology from Leiden University, and is
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Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and her interests
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cover the history and archaeology of the East Mediterranean during the centuries of
transition from the Roman empire to the Caliphate.
Tonio Sebastian Richter, PhD (1999) in Egyptology, is an Oberassistent (senior
lecturer) at the Egyptological Institute – Georg Steindorff – of the University of Leipzig.
He is the author of Rechtssemantik und forensische Rhetorik (Leipzig, 2002; 2nd edn
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008), and his research interests include Coptic linguistics,

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papyrology and epigraphy, and topics in the history of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt,
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such as history of law, social and economic history, plurilingualism and language ce.hange,
pagan and Christian religion, magic, hermetism, alchemy and late antique scienatces. He
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is co-editor of both the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunsde and the
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Petra M. Sijpesteijn is Professor of Arabic Language and Culture ate .Lceiden University.
She received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton Unativersity (2004) and
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has published widely on early Islamic history and Arabic papyrology. Her forthcoming
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Sofía Torallas Tovar gained her PhD in Classical Philology from the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid and was formerly a pom stdoctoral fellow at University College
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London (1997–2000). She is currently a pcermanent research fellow at the Consejo
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Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSatIC) in Madrid and is also the Curator of the
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papyrus collection at the Abbey of Monthserrat, Barcelona.
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