The Elephantine Papyri in English
Subtitle: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (Documenta Et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, Vol 22)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9789004101975
Subjects: Hamito-Semitic Languages; Architecture; Egypt; History; Egyptian language; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Aramaic; Coptic; Latin; History: World; African Languages; African Languages (See Also Swahili); Ancient - General; Interior Design - General; Language; Ancient Egypt Archaeology; Elephantine; Foreign Language Study; General; Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri); Papyri, Hieratic; Elephantine (Egypt); Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Antiquities
Description: This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Coptic, spanning a period of 3000 years.

The documents include letters and legal contracts from family and other archives, and are thus an invaluable source of knowledge for scholars of varied disciplines, such as epistolography, law, society, religion, language and onomastics. The volume includes seven sections, each containing carefully translated and extensively annotated documents of one language group. Excellent cross-referencing allows the user to trace forerunners and successors.

Each section is preceded by an introduction; the Aramaic, Demotic and Greek sections are concluded with a prosopography. The book closes with a select tropical index.