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Paratextual elements in a papyrus archive from Deir el-Medina. Exploring a marginal scribal practice across genres and time
Polis, Stéphane
2016Signes dans les textes. Recherches sur les continuités et les ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine
 

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Keywords :
Paratext; Peritext; Epitext; Chester-Beatty; Deir el-Medina
Abstract :
[en] The aim of this paper is to describe the variety of paratextual elements encountered in the so-called ‘Chester Beatty’ papyrus archive coming from Deir el-Medina (Western Thebes; New Kingdom). Originally, this archive consisted of over 45 different manuscripts, which passed into various hands among the Necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom during a period of more than 100 years (Černý 1945; Koenig 1981; Pestman 1982; Grandet 2002) and is now scattered among collections and museums around the world (Cairo, Dublin, Geneva, London, Oxford).After some considerations on the history of this archive — from Antiquity until its eventful discovery, both in situ within the village of Deir el-Medina and on the antiquity market between 1928 and 1935 (Posener, in Černý 1978: VI-VII) — this talk will be devoted to the formal description and functional categorization of the paratextual elements encountered in the texts of the archive. This corpus has been selected in order to limit the amount of variation possibly induced by different mediums (the texts are all written on papyrus) and by heterogeneous socio-cultural settings. On the other hand, it allows me to explore a great variety of paratextual elements used by this community across time (from the 19th dynasty until the second part of the 20th dynasty) and genres.
Research center :
Mondes anciens - ULiège
Disciplines :
Classical & oriental studies
Author, co-author :
Polis, Stéphane  ;  Université de Liège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Egyptologie
Language :
English
Title :
Paratextual elements in a papyrus archive from Deir el-Medina. Exploring a marginal scribal practice across genres and time
Publication date :
02 June 2016
Number of pages :
119 slides
Event name :
Signes dans les textes. Recherches sur les continuités et les ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine
Event organizer :
Nathan Carlig, Guillaume Lescuyer, Aurore Motte, Nathalie Sojic
Event place :
Liège, Belgium
Event date :
2-4 June 2016
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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