Title Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / Roger S. Bagnall.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Sather classical lectures ; v. 69
	Sather classical lectures ; v. 69.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index.
Contents	Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna -- The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East -- Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt -- Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?
Summary	Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, the author, a leading papyrologist, argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized previously.
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Subject	Written communication -- Egypt -- History.
	Written communication.
	Egypt.
	History.
	Written communication -- Middle East -- History.
	Middle East.
	Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt.
	Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
	Printed ephemera -- History.
	Printed ephemera.
	Graffiti -- History.
	Graffiti.
	Ostraka.
	Ostraka.
	Coptic inscriptions -- Egypt.
	Coptic inscriptions.
	Syriac language -- Texts.
	Syriac language.
Genre/Form	Texts.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Bagnall, Roger S. Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520267022 (DLC) 2010023442 (OCoLC)642351602
ISBN	9780520948525 (electronic book)
	0520948521 (electronic book)
	1283277697
	9781283277693
	9780520267022
	0520267028

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