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Archives and dossiers KU Leuven
© 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Documentary papyri describe ancient people. Where unrelated texts are like instant snapshots, archives present a coherent film of a person, a family, or a community and may span several months, years, or decades. Bilingual archives show how some Egyptians tried to become Hellenized, but their private accounts betray their native language. An archive is bound to be of greater interest ...
Information technologies : writing, book production and the role of literacy KU Leuven
study on different aspects of the technology of writing : origin of the alphabet, evolution from roll to codex, book production and book trade, ancient libraries, record-keeping, ancient literacy
Persians soldiers and Persians of the epigone: social mobility of soldiers-herdsmen in Upper Egypt KU Leuven
Access to Justice in Ptolemaic Egypt. Assessing the Judiciary through Three Case Studies from the Thebaid KU Leuven
The Ptolemies were confronted with a broad range of challenges inher- ent in a new multicultural society, including in the domain of jurisdiction. This paper assesses the judiciary in the second-century BC Thebaid, starting from three case studies where the judicial procedures can be followed over a longer period and using the USIP’s guidelines which offer an interesting framework for the assessment of antique justice systems. The paper ...