Code
01CD7322
Duration
01 February 2023 → 31 July 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Historical archaeology
- Material culture studies
- Ancient history
- Greek language
- Writing systems
Keywords
semiotics
Late antiquity
administration
materiality
papyrology
ancient history
Ancient Greek
Roman Egypt
law
writing culture
Project description
The project analyses the materiality of administrative and legal papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt. Format, size, layout and quality of the support are studied from a technological and semiotic prospective, as important tools of communication in a context where the standardization of the message is a key factor for an effective transmission, and the general level of literacy is gradually increasing.