Egypt of the Hellenistic and Roman periods remains the most thoroughly documented
multilingual society in the ancient world, because of the wealth of texts preserved on …

Egypt in the Hellenistic and Roman periods was a profoundly multilingual society, where
users of different languages (including Egyptian, Greek, Latin and Aramaic) came into …

The Jewish-Greek tradition represents an arguably distinctive strand of Judaism
characterized by use of the Greek language and interest in Hellenism. This volume traces …

Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with
the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual …

Thebes in the First Millennium BC is a collection of articles, based mostly, but not entirely, on
the talks given at the conference of the same name organised by the team of the South …

This thesis explores the embalming ritual of the Egyptian Late Period through Ptolemaic era
(664–30 BC). Using an interdisciplinary approach, I incorporate primary and secondary …

A fragmentary tablet from Vindolanda (Tab. Vindol. II, 213) contains an occurrence of the
verb interpretari ('interpret','explain','mediate') in an apparently commercial context, relating …

Timanthes engraved this starry lapis lazuli, a gold-speckled Persian semi-precious stone, for
Demylus, as a gift for dark-haired Nikaia, from Kos, in return for a tender kiss.(Poseidippos …

“Cet hiver (1893-1894) j'ai franchi la première cataracte dans la dahabieh d'un ami et j'ai fait,
sans me presser, le voyage de Ouadi Halfa, aller et retour. À cette occasion j'eus le bonheur …

Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever
volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been …