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9781589836280: The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change

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The Elephantine Papyri in English This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Coptic, spanning a period of 3000 years. The documents include letters and legal contracts from family and other archives, and are thus an invaluable source of knowledge for scholars of varied di... Full description

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