Materializing Ancient DocumentsDaedalusSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DNL32JRX/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Roger S.BagnallMaterializing Ancient Documentshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DNL32JRXhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DNL32JRXhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DNL32JRXDaedalus145April 1, 201679-87Two materially oriented revolutions have transformed the study of ancient documents in recent decades: first, a new interest in the ancient production of written artifacts; and second, the concern with the archaeological contexts, and more particularly the taphonomy–that is, the processes at work in the burial–of those same objects. The first, largely driven by the availability of digital images, has given life to the study of ancient writing as a cultural and social phenomenon and to the social life of written objects. In the process, connections between literary and documentary texts have come to the fore and distinctions between these categories have eroded. The second revolution began with an interest in what archaeological contexts of excavated papyri could tell us about the history of the texts, but it has evolved to see the texts themselves as artifacts engaged in an iterative dialogue with both the contexts and other objects found in them.
Bagnall, Roger S. “Materializing Ancient Documents.” Daedalus 145, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00378.
Roger S. Bagnall, Materializing Ancient Documents,Daedalus 145, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 79–87, https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00378.