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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

By: Jacqueline E. Jay

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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

By: Jacqueline E. Jay

In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.

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9004323074

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The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis

Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton)

By: Jacqueline E. Jay,Brian Muhs,Foy D. Scalf

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The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis

Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton)

By: Jacqueline E. Jay,Brian Muhs,Foy D. Scalf

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. Rarely have such deposits been found in situ. Excavated by Ambrose Lansing on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915-16 at the site of Deir el-Bahari, the integrity and context of this find are critical to the proper understanding of the texts it contained. Through the publication and analysis of this archive of Demotic and Greek texts recorded on ostraca, Muhs, Scalf, and Jay reconstruct the microhistory of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis, and his family, who worked in Egypt on the west bank of Thebes as priests in the mortuary industry during the early Ptolemaic Period in the third century BC. The forty-two ostraca published in this volume provide a rare opportunity to explore the intersections between an intact ancient archive of private administrative documents and the larger social and legal contexts into which they fit. What the reconstructed microhistory reveals is an ancient family striving to make it among the wealthy and connected social network of Theban choachytes and pastophoroi, while they simultaneously navigated the bureaucratic maze of taxes, fees, receipts, and legal procedures of the Ptolemaic state.

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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

By: Jacqueline E. Jay

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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

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