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Project

More than words: the materiality of legal and administrative documents in Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynchos
Code
01CD7322
Duration
01 February 2023 → 31 July 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • 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 History Archaeology
 
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.