Cultural transfer and the evolution of formal aspects of Demotic papyrus contracts in hellenistic Egypt
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1 février 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.9626
- isbn: 9782859446895
- eisbn: 9791035101664
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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droit grec histoire juridique koinè juridique époque hellénistique espace méditerranéen monde barbare Empire romain Classics History HIS002010 HBLASujets proches
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Mark Depauw, « Cultural transfer and the evolution of formal aspects of Demotic papyrus contracts in hellenistic Egypt », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.9626
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Demotic is the name for a cursive form of the ancient Egyptian script used between roughly the 7th century BC and the 5th century AD, as well as the corresponding stage of the ancient Egyptian language. The standard writing surface for legal documents was papyrus, especially for important “contracts”, a somewhat ambiguous term for personal declarations, almost always subjectively phrased, from one party to another. It is the purpose of this paper to examine how formal aspects of Demotic papyr...