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Ostraka in the collection of New York University: O.NYU
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Körperschaft: New York University (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Baetens, Gert ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Bagnall, Roger S. 1947- (HerausgeberIn), Caputo, Clementina (HerausgeberIn), Mazy, Élodie 19XX- (HerausgeberIn), Ratzan, David M. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:ISAW monographs
Schlagwörter:
New York University
Sammlung
Griechisch
Ostrakon
Koptisch
Ostraka / Catalogs
Greek language / Texts
Coptic language / Texts
Katalog
Links:http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=033585826&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Abstract:"Ostraka in the Collection of New York University is a comprehensive edition and commentary of 77 ostraka, or potsherds with ancient texts written on them, from Greco-Roman and late antique Egypt. Seventy-two of these ostraca are housed in NYU Special Collections, originally purchased by Caspar Kraemer in 1932, then the chair of the NYU Classics Department. Although Kraemer advertised the imminent publication of the texts in 1934 and later collaborated with the famed papyrologist Herbert Youtie, neither completed the project. The texts in this small collection span the 2nd cent. BCE to the 8th cent. CE and include both Greek and Coptic texts. The majority, however, form a coherent dossier of tax receipts related to mortuary activities in Upper Egypt during the reign of Augustus (texts 7-70, dated from roughly the last quarter of the 1st cent BCE to 12 CE). The five ostraca published in this volume not held by NYU include one that had been part of Kraemer's original purchase but was subsequently lost (thankfully preserved in a photograph in Youtie's archive at the University of Michigan), and four ostraca now held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The latter four texts were purchased separately and published previously, but clearly belong originally to the same group of texts. They are included in this volume both for the sake of completeness and because the authors were able to improve the readings in light of the context provided by the dossier. In addition to the scholarly edition of these texts, the volume contains a full discussion of their provenance, the taxes, the taxpayers and collectors, and a ceramological analysis of the sherds"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:xii, 152 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781479813797

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