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The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Paperback)
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The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Paperback)
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For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two
commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation
is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the
wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the
country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient
multilingualism. One of the greatest contributions of papyri to
this subject is that they capture more linguistic registers than
other ancient and medieval sources, since they range from very
private documents not meant by their author to be read by future
generations, to official documents produced by the administration,
which are preserved in their original form. This collection of
essays aims to make this wealth better known, as well as to give a
diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival
of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander
the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly
also Coptic, receded from the documentary record. The first section
of the book gives an overview of the documentary sources for this
subject, which for ancient history standards are very rich and as
yet under-exploited. The second part contains several case studies
from different periods that deal with language use in contexts of
varying breadth and scope, from its the ritual use in magic or the
liturgy to private letters and state administration.
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