Identifiers and identification methods in the ancient world
By: edited by Mark Depauw and Sandra Coussement
Series: Legal documents in ancient societies -- 3; Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 229; Legal documents in ancient societies -- 3.; Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 229.
Publisher: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789042929838
Subjects: Metodik; Recht; Rättskällor; Altertum; Identification (Egyptian law); Identifikation; Person; Congresses; Identification (Greek law); Identification; Personal Names
Description: "This volume provides a survey of how people were identified in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome. Rather than discussing the identifiers themselves, the contributions focus on the selection of elements such as names, genealogy, titles, or ethnics, as well as on legal confirmation of identity in the form of witnesses, seals or signatures. The varying socio-onomastic and legal conventions illustrate intense cultural exchange as well as regional traditions in the Ancient World, and this collection of papers will be of interest to both social and legal historians."--
Notes: International conference proceedings, Leuven and Brussels, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 English, 1 French, 1 Italian, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: Identity, identifiers and identification methods  -- Mark Depauw & Sandra Coussement; title: Identifiers and identification methods in Mesopotamia  -- Sophie Démare-Lafont; title: Identifiers and identification methods in legal documents from Old Babylonian Sippar (+-1800-1500 BCE)  -- Guido Suurmeijer; title: Identification in Ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the the end of the New Kingdom (2650-1100 BCE)  -- Arlette David; title: Elements of identification in Egypt, 800 BC -- AD 300  -- Mark Depauw; title: Did BGU XIV 2367 work?  -- Uri Yiftach-Firanko; title: Double names as indicators of social stratification in Graeco-Roman Egypt  -- Yanne Broux & Sandra Coussement; title: Seals and stamps as identifiers in daily life in Greco-Roman Egypt  -- Katelijn Vandorpe; title: Éléments de l'identification en Égypte (IV-VIII siècles)  -- Alain Delattre; title: Citizens, non-citizens, and slaves : identification methods in classical Greece  -- Michele Faraguna; title: A comment no legal identification in Ancient Crete  -- Karen P. Kristensen; title: Identificare gli schiavi nei documenti greci  -- Alberto Maffi; title: Methoden der identifikation in lateinischen tabulae  -- Eva Jakab; title: Identifications of physicians during the High Empire  -- Ido Israelowich; title: Identifikation von Vertragspartnern in der römischen Literatur -- Philipp Scheibelreiter.