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Korshi Dosoo, Marina Escolano-Poveda, Richard Gordon, Edward Love, Franco Maltomini, Anastasia Maravela, Raquel Martín Hernández, Alberto Nodar Domínguez, Panagiota Sarischouli, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
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Tras una breve introducción genérica en la que se refiere a los conocimientos procedentes de los primeros exploradores griegos de la India, a la poca fiabilidad de sus informes, a la escasa presencia de comerciantes griegos en la región,... more
Tras una breve introducción genérica en la que se refiere a los conocimientos procedentes de los primeros exploradores griegos de la India, a la poca fiabilidad de sus informes, a la escasa presencia de comerciantes griegos en la región, a la relevancia de las campañas de Alejandro, a los informes de Megástenes, a Eratóstenes y el escepticismo ante el mito, el libro XV de la Geografía tiene tres partes principales, pero de extensión desigual: Estrabón dedica casi dos tercios del total del libro a la India, y el resto a Ariana y a Persia. El libro XVII de la Geografía completa el recorrido por África, describiendo Egipto, Etiopía y Libia.
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review by MChiara Scappaticcio:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-04-15.html
Reviewed: Revista de Libros 174, junio 2010. Gerión 28, 2 (2010)125-130. Studia Philonica Annual XXII (2010) 280-282.
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Reviewed at : Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e Indoeuropeos, 17 (2007); Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.10.04. Chronique d’Égypte 82 (2007) 347-350. Archiv Für Papyrusforschung 53/1 (2007) 69-71. Classical Review 58... more
Reviewed at : Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e Indoeuropeos, 17 (2007); Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.10.04. Chronique d’Égypte 82 (2007) 347-350. Archiv Für Papyrusforschung 53/1 (2007) 69-71. Classical Review 58 (2008) 97-99. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 44 (2007) 211-17, Theologische Literaturzeitung 135, no. 2, (2010): 159. Latomus 70.4 (2011) 1185-1186.
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Coedited with Alberto Nodar (board of editors María Jesús Albarrán, Raquel Martín, José Domingo Rodríguez Martín, Marco Antonio Santamaría, Irene Pajón)

http://hdl.handle.net/10230/41902
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Reviewed: ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones 17 (2012) 253-279; Myrtia 27 (2012), 441-516. Minerva 25 (2012), MHNH 12 (2012), 310-313.... more
Reviewed: ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones 17 (2012) 253-279; Myrtia 27 (2012), 441-516. Minerva 25 (2012), MHNH 12 (2012), 310-313.
http://www.elcultural.com/noticias/letras/S-Torallas-R-Martin-La-inhumacion-cristiana-esta-en-la-base-de-los-relatos-de-vampiros-y-zombies/2307
Este volumen recoge una serie de trabajos dedicados a Ramón Pius Tragan por investigadores que han trabajado en los fondos de la Abadía de Montserrat.
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ISBN 978 8400091538
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This volume collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World", including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from... more
This volume collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World", including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Khurasan.
Pedro Bádenas de la Peña - Sofía Torallas Tovar – Eugenio R. Luján, María Ángeles Gallego (eds.) Google books view: https://books.google.es/books/about/Lenguas_en_contacto.html?id=D5JHfs1Vvn8C&redir_esc=y Review in... more
Resumen. Esta contribución presenta un estudio del contacto lingüístico más temprano entre el griego y el egipcio y los primeros préstamos léxicos que encontramos en la literatura griega. Para situar dicho contacto, se postula un... more
Resumen. Esta contribución presenta un estudio del contacto lingüístico más temprano entre el griego y el egipcio y los primeros préstamos léxicos que encontramos en la literatura griega. Para situar dicho contacto, se postula un escenario para este trasvase léxico en el trasiego comercial tanto en las colonias griegas en Egipto como en otros puertos del Mediterráneo, como el Pireo y Halicarnaso en época clásica.
This article aims to clarify the issue of the endings of Mark in the Coptic versions. It endeavors to show that the endings of Mark fit within the general context of the textual history of the Sahidic Coptic versions of the Gospel of... more
This article aims to clarify the issue of the endings of Mark in the Coptic versions. It endeavors to show that the endings of Mark fit within the general context of the textual history of the Sahidic Coptic versions of the Gospel of Mark as recently proposed by the authors. It also examines the details of the conclusio brevior, prevalent in part of the Coptic tradition, as shown by the research carried out within the framework of the ‘SNSF Mark 16’ project directed by Claire Clivaz. In addition, it highlights some of the particularities of the textual tradition of the ending of Mark, which could indicate an influence of a monastic environment in Upper Egypt.
In this contribution I present a proposal to understand the materiality of the Elephantine papyrus P.Berol. 13270, a fragment dating from the early third century B.C., a date that places it among the oldest literary papyri that have been... more
In this contribution I present a proposal to understand the materiality of the
Elephantine papyrus P.Berol. 13270, a fragment dating from the early third century B.C., a date that places it among the oldest literary papyri that have been preserved. The format is difficult to elucidate, since it is very fragmentary, but there are sufficient indications to consider that it was not originally part of a papyrus roll which would have contained more poems, but a sort of memorandum for declamation in a symposium. We resort to contemporary copies and to the comparative method to arrive at our proposal.
in L. Conti, R. Fornieles, M.L. Jiménez López, L. Macía, J. de la Villa (eds.), Δῶρα τά οἱ δίδομεν φιλέοντες. Homenaje al profesor Emilio Crespo, Madrid, 2020, 291-302.
Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, ed. the Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Volume I: The Synoptic Gospels, book 2: The Gospel of Mark, part 3: Studies, ed. Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier,... more
Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, ed. the Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Volume I: The Synoptic Gospels, book 2: The Gospel of Mark, part 3: Studies, ed. Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Marie-Luise Lakmann, Gregory S. Paulson, and Klaus Wachtel. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2021, 203-220.
Das Studium der Buchformate aus den ersten Jahrhunderten unserer Zeitrechnung hat sich vor allem auf die Verbreitung des Kodex und dessen Verwendung in christlichen Gemeinden konzentriert. Die Schriftrolle, das vorherrschende Format seit... more
Das Studium der Buchformate aus den ersten Jahrhunderten unserer Zeitrechnung hat sich vor allem auf die Verbreitung des Kodex und dessen Verwendung in christlichen Gemeinden konzentriert. Die Schriftrolle, das vorherrschende Format seit der Antike, wurde in dieser Zeit meist durch den Kodex ersetzt, aber sie behielt eine gewisse Bedeutung und wurde weiterhin für bestimmte Zwecke in christlicher und nichtchristlicher Buch- und Dokumentenherstellung eingesetzt. Dieser Beitrag un- tersucht den Gebrauch der Schriftrolle nach dem Übergang zum Kodex in der Spätantike und die verschiedenen Formen und Formate, in denen sie vorzufinden war, sowie ihre Bedeutung für verschiedene literarische und dokumentarische Gat- tungen.
In our research for the critical edition of the Sahidic variants of the Gospel of Mark, the manuscript sa 123 stands out as a very special example: it is likely to be a fragmentary witness of philological work in the Fayyum well after the... more
In our research for the critical edition of the Sahidic variants of the Gospel of Mark, the manuscript sa 123 stands out as a very special example: it is likely to be a fragmentary witness of philological work in the Fayyum well after the Arabic conquest. The manuscript features extensive corrections performed by a second hand and based on a different type of text than the first copy. In this article we present the edition of one of its pages with the purpose of exploring the process and philological activity attested by it.
in P. Buzi (ed.), Coptic Literature in Context (4th-14th cent.): Cultural Landscape, Literary Production and Manuscript Archaeology. Proceedings of the third conference of the ERC project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An... more
in P. Buzi (ed.), Coptic Literature in Context (4th-14th cent.): Cultural Landscape, Literary Production and Manuscript Archaeology. Proceedings of the third conference of the ERC project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context, Roma 2020, 149-160.
in P. Buzi (ed.), Coptic Literature in Context (4th-14th cent.): Cultural Landscape, Literary Production and Manuscript Archaeology. Proceedings of the third conference of the ERC project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An... more
in P. Buzi (ed.), Coptic Literature in Context (4th-14th cent.): Cultural Landscape, Literary Production and Manuscript Archaeology. Proceedings of the third conference of the ERC project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context (‘PAThs’)”, Roma, 2020, 101-114.
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This article, published on the occasion of the Oriental Institute centennial, consists of a description of the characteristics, role, and appearance of mummy labels; a presentation of the Mummy Label Database project; and an introduction... more
This article, published on the occasion of the Oriental Institute centennial, consists of a description of the characteristics, role, and appearance of mummy labels; a presentation of the Mummy Label Database project; and an introduction to the mummy labels in the Oriental Institute Museum.
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The linguistic situation of Greco‐Roman Egypt was characterized by a new ruling‐class language, Greek, becoming the language of administration and government. An influx of immigrants also spoke it. However, Egyptian remained the mother... more
The linguistic situation of Greco‐Roman Egypt was characterized by a new ruling‐class language, Greek, becoming the language of administration and government. An influx of immigrants also spoke it. However, Egyptian remained the mother tongue of the majority of the population. Other languages, including Aramaic, Edomite, Pehlevi, and Latin, were also used in different regions and time periods, and for different functions. Our ability to track down what languages were spoken is limited by the survival of the written evidence, and is closely connected to the question of literacy.
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In this paper we present three fragments, at least one of which belongs to the copy of the amnesty decree of 186 BCE known as P.Köln 7.313. P.Monts.Roca inv. 908 fits the left hand side of col. 1 of the decree. For the other two fragments... more
In this paper we present three fragments, at least one of which belongs to the copy of the amnesty decree of 186 BCE known as P.Köln 7.313. P.Monts.Roca inv. 908 fits the left hand side of col. 1 of the decree. For the other two fragments (P.Palau Rib. inv. 172 c-d) we tentatively suggest that they belong to the same document, mainly for paleographical reasons and because they belong to a collection where other fragments of the same document are found. Although this paper does not provide many new insights into the text of the decree, it confirms that the sources for the Cologne, Roca Puig, and Palau Ribes collections of papyri were the same.
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En la presente nota queremos presentar dos proyectos recientemente iniciados. Ambos tienen como objetivo el estudio de esa conexión entre la materialidad del texto y su contenido textual e iconográfico. También reseñamos un congreso... more
En la presente nota queremos presentar dos proyectos recientemente iniciados. Ambos tienen como objetivo el estudio de esa conexión entre la materialidad del texto y su contenido textual e iconográfico. También reseñamos un congreso celebrado en el seno de estos dos proyectos hermanados.
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in Dils, Peter, Grossman, Eitan, Richter, Tonio Sebastian & Schenkel, Wolfgang (eds.), Greek Influence on Egyptian Coptic: Contact induced change in an ancient African language, Lingua Aegyptia 17, Hamburg, 2017: 97-113
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The importance of codicology and palaeography for the development of Coptic Studies has long been known, although in more recent years there has been a tendency towards a deeper interest in codices and manuscripts in all fields. A proof... more
The importance of codicology and palaeography for the development of Coptic Studies has long been known, although in more recent years there has been a tendency towards a deeper interest in codices and manuscripts in all fields. A proof of this is the development of some initiatives I will shortly describe. Some of these are strictly in Coptic Studies, some in a wider context, but in connexion or at least with benefit to Coptic Studies. The development of technologieshas also helped spur the deeper attention paid to codicology and palaeography.
I removed the attachment at the request of the publisher (I agree this is the right thing to do).
see https://www.academia.edu/28121088/TRAVAUX_ET_M%C3%89MOIRES_Tome_XX_1_M%C3%A9langes_Jean_Gascou
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As soon as this article was published, Alin Suciu was able to identify one of the texts as Paul of Tamma, a very interesting and quite obscure text. Here is his entry:... more
As soon as this article was published, Alin Suciu was able to identify one of the texts as Paul of Tamma, a very interesting and quite obscure text.
Here is his entry:
http://alinsuciu.com/2016/02/26/an-ascetic-fragment-from-montserrat-aphorisms-of-paul-of-tamma-and-anoup/
and his article on Stephen of Thebes:
https://www.academia.edu/13356364/Recovering_the_Literary_Dossier_of_Stephen_of_Thebes_With_Preliminary_Editions_of_the_Greek_Redactions_of_the_Ascetic_Commandments_forthcoming_in_Adamantius_2015_
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Shenoute of Atripe was one the most important agents of the emergence of monasticism in Egypt in late antiquity. This article examines two aspects of that agency as it emerges in his sermons. In his role as abbot of a large congregation,... more
Shenoute of Atripe was one the most important agents of the emergence of monasticism in Egypt in late antiquity. This article examines two aspects of that agency as it emerges in his sermons. In his role as abbot of a large congregation, he insisted on punishing disobedience or evil behaviour within the monastery. Beyond the walls of the monastery, Shenoute presents himself as a representative of god and Christ in the local community. With recent imperial antipagan legislation in hand, he felt authorized in his attacks against those he presents as pagans or paganizing, including local imperial administrators, who were (or at least represented themselves as) Christian. In an appendix we include the translation of Not because a fox barks, a text in which these latter aspects of Shenoute’s agency emerge clearly.
This contribution aims at exploring the possibilities of the paleographical study of two Greek magical papyri (namely PGM VII and PGM XXXVI) not only in terms of determining an approximate date of the documents but also, and perhaps more... more
This contribution aims at exploring the possibilities of the paleographical study of two Greek magical papyri (namely PGM VII and PGM XXXVI) not only in terms of determining an approximate date of the documents but also, and perhaps
more importantly, with a view to understanding the scribal environment in which they were produced, and therefore what purpose they were intended for, in comparison to similar hands in different book formats and literary and documentary content.
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The use of the ostracon as a writing medium in Graeco-Coptic Magic has not been thoroughly studied, although it was a frequently deployed medium in Upper Egypt in Late Antiquity. The information we get from the magical instructions both... more
The use of the ostracon as a writing medium in Graeco-Coptic Magic has not been thoroughly studied, although it was a frequently deployed medium in Upper Egypt in Late Antiquity. The information we get from the magical instructions both in Greek and Coptic handbooks is compared in this paper to the extant evidence, i.e. the surviving ostraca that can be interpreted as magical texts utilized in ritual practice. This methodology has not ever been deployed and however it provides interesting results. As it will be discussed, the magical handbooks mention and prescribe the use of the ostracon mainly for «aggressive magic», while the ostraca found related to magical practices might also belong to the realm of protective magic, i.e. for amulets. We have developed a typology of the ostraca labelled as «magical» and prove that most of this material is difficult to classify as «magical».
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National Geographic Historia 138 julio 2015
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- Reseña de BOUD’HORS, Anne, Le Canon 8 de Chénouté, vol. 1, Introduction, édition critique; vol. 2, Traduction, index, planches (El Cairo: IFAO, 2013), viii+775 pp. en dos vol. ISBN: 9782724706154 Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 12... more
- Reseña de BOUD’HORS, Anne, Le Canon 8 de Chénouté, vol. 1, Introduction, édition critique; vol. 2, Traduction, index, planches (El Cairo: IFAO, 2013), viii+775 pp. en dos vol. ISBN: 9782724706154
Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 12 (2015) 313-316
- Reseña de CHOAT, Malcolm and Iain GARDNER, The Macquarie Papyri. A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), xiv + 131 pp. + 12 plates. CD. ISBN:
9782503531700 Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 12 (2015) 322-324.
Obituario de Marvin Meyer
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La sezione monografica è costituita dagli Atti di un Congresso internazionale di studi tenuto alla Sapienza il 12 e 13 ottobre 2009, dal titolo "Mito, Rito e Simbolo. Aspetti dell'esperienza religiosa indiana - Myth, Rite, and Symbol.... more
La sezione monografica è costituita dagli Atti di un Congresso internazionale di studi tenuto alla Sapienza il 12 e 13 ottobre 2009, dal titolo "Mito, Rito e Simbolo. Aspetti dell'esperienza religiosa indiana - Myth, Rite, and Symbol. Aspects of Indian Religious Experience" organizzato da Fabio Scialpi, cui si deve anche la curatela di questa Theme section
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Semblanza de Antonio Tovar en el centenario de su nacimiento
Escrito por sus hijos Consuelo Tovar, Santiago Tovar, y su nieta, Sofía Torallas, con motivo de su centenario, en el congreso de la SEEC en Logroño en 2011. Es un recorrido por su vida y un anecdotario.
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Emerita: Revista de lingüística y Filología Clásica 83/2, pp. 374-376
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Peu de personnes auront marqué aussi profondément la papyrologie des époques byzantine et arabe que le récipiendaire de ce volume. Aussi ses collègues et élèves ont-ils répondu sans hésiter à notre appel pour rendre hommage, à travers le... more
Peu de personnes auront marqué aussi profondément la papyrologie des époques byzantine et arabe que le récipiendaire de ce volume. Aussi ses collègues et élèves ont-ils répondu sans hésiter à notre appel pour rendre hommage, à travers le présent volume, à une œuvre dont ils se sentent tributaires et qui ne cesse de stimuler les nouvelles générations.
Jean Gascou a beau d’être l’inventeur d’un « modèle », il s’est avant tout exprimé à travers l’édition de papyrus, qu’il a toujours ressentie comme un stimulus nécessaire au développement d’une pensée ferme et rigoureuse cherchant à éviter les séductions des synthèses faciles et des rapprochements factices de données en réalité hétérogènes. Cet hommage se devait donc d’être avant tout un recueil d’éditions de papyrus. Nous avons pu tenir ce cap, même si certains collègues dont la présence était souhaitée ont préféré contribuer par un essai, sans jamais néanmoins rompre totalement les liens avec la documentation papyrologique.
Le risque d’hétérogénéité qu’encourt tout volume de mélanges est ici conjuré par l’unité thématique qui découle des limites chronologiques et géographiques que nous lui avons imposées et qui reflètent celles de l’œuvre de Jean Gascou : l’Égypte byzantine et arabe – même si quelques incursions en dehors de cette province confirment cette règle éditoriale et rappellent que notre « mélangé » s’est aussi intéressé à d’autres périodes (la fin du Haut-Empire) et à d’autres régions (notamment le Proche-Orient qu’il a fréquenté avec de plus en plus d’assiduité ces deux dernières décennies). C’est aussi la raison pour laquelle certains collègues proches de Jean Gascou, mais travaillant sur d’autres périodes, n’ont pu contribuer à ces mélanges. Nous nous excusons auprès d’eux d’avoir été d’une rigueur inflexible qui, loin d’être une entorse à l’amicitia papyrologorum, ne visait qu’à produire un ouvrage homogène qui reflète le mieux possible les préoccupations du récipiendaire.
Homogène ne veut pas forcément dire « monolingue ». On verra que toutes les langues pratiquées à grande échelle dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen-Âge y sont représentées dans toute leur diversité : grec, latin, copte, arabe. Nous avons souhaité ce mélange : il correspond aux intérêts de Jean Gascou, qui a pratiqué l’édition de papyrus dans ces quatre langues ; il acte surtout une tendance de la papyrologie qui refuse désormais tout enclavement linguistique, comme en témoignent les sessions de nos congrès consacrées à d’autres formes de papyrologie et l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération de papyrologues de plus en plus rétive à se laisser enfermer dans une documentation monolingue.
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The magical formularies on papyrus are precious witnesses to practices and processes of cultural transmission: i.e. the creation, communication, transformation and preservation of knowledge, both in text and image, across history and... more
The magical formularies on papyrus are precious witnesses to practices and processes of cultural transmission: i.e. the creation, communication, transformation and preservation of knowledge, both in text and image, across history and between the cultures of Egypt and Greece. More than eighty such handbooks survive, some of them in a fragmentary state. This book, the work of an international team of papyrologists and historians of magic, replaces Papyri graecae magicae edited by K. Preisendanz, which appeared almost a century ago and has been used as one of the most important sources for the study of Greek magic, augmented in the 1990s by the excellent work of R. Daniel and F. Maltomini, the Supplementum Magicum. This project has collected all the known magical formularies and fully studied both their materiality and their texts.  The facing English translation with notes replaces The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, edited by H.D. Betz.  This volume, the first of two, presents the earliest of the handbooks, fifty-four in all, spanning the period from second century BCE to third century CE, in a new edition which includes the original texts in the three languages (Greek, Demotic, Coptic) with a full material description and a facing translation with commentary.