A case of sibling scribes in Coptic Thebes

  • Jennifer Cromwell (Contributor)

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Description

In Late Antiquity, Medinet Habu was a bustling Coptic community, the village Djeme. The lives of the villagers are documented by an extensive corpus of textual material. Palaeographic and linguistic analysis enable assigning distinct scribes to some of the paprus documents.
Date made available31 Aug 2024
PublisherMacquarie University

Keywords

  • ancient Coptic manuscripts
  • ancient Coptic society
  • ancient Thebes

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