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Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World The University of Manchester Research Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World Document Version Final published version Link to publication record in Manchester Research Explorer Citation for published version (APA): Sarri, A. (2017). Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World: 500 BC - AD 300. (Materiale Textkulturen [Material Text Cultures]; Vol. 12). de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co. https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/456723 Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on Manchester Research Explorer is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Proof version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version. 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For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2018 Antonia Sarri, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston The book is published with open access at www.degruyter.com. Cover image: P.Bad. IV 48, Letter from Dionysia to Theon, 127 BC (detail) © Institut für Papyrologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Typesetting: Sonderforschungsbereich 933 (Jessica Dreschert) Printing and binding: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/24/17 8:06 PM Acknowledgements This book arises from my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Heidelberg’s Sonderforschungsbereich 933 “Materiale Textkulturen” in the project A02 “Antike Briefe als Kommunikationsmedium” between March 2012 and June 2015. My deepest gratitude is owed to the leader of the project, Dr R. Ast, for entrusting me to write this book and for his tireless help and support during this work. Both Dr R. Ast and Dr J. Lougovaya-Ast have read drafts and provided constructive criticism and suggestions for improvements in every part. My research was carried out in the Institute for Papy- rology of the University of Heidelberg, and for this I am most thankful to the director, Professor A. Jördens, for offering invaluable advice and support during my stay there. I also thank very much the directors of the Sonderforschungsbereich, Professor M. Hilgert and Professor L. Lieb, for approving the necessary funding for presentations of parts of this book in conferences and for its publication expenses. I am academically indebted to many professionals who spared no effort and time to help me. Most of all, I am indebted to Dr J. Cowey and Ms C. Lanz for their help in the collection and organisation of all the surviving letters in an easily searchable and expandable database based on the papyrological databases Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV) and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), which facilitated my work on the very large number of letters that formed the basis for the writing of this book. I am also deeply grateful to Professor M. Depauw for giving me a large file of all the archives of letters in Trismegistos, which I combined with HGV and DDbDP in my database to generate a list of the letters that belong to archives. I am also very thankful to Dr V. Salesioti, Forensic Document Examiner, who provided invaluable information on Forensic Handwriting Analysis, which helped my research and the development of a method and principles for the identification of changes of hands in ancient letters. I also thank Professor W. Clarysse, Professor A. Papathomas and Professor C. Witschel, who offered much constructive criticism on earlier drafts of parts of this book. Many thanks are also owed to my research assistants, Mr A. Illius and Ms H. Enders, for helping me collect images of letters in a digital archive. I thank especially Ms H. Enders for her substantial help in the collection of information about the finding circumstances and contents of archives of letters, which have been included in Appendix II, and for help in the construction of the indices. Many thanks are also owed to academics and curators of collections, who have helped me access images of letters. I thank especially Mr F. Aurora of the University of Oslo Library, Professor C. Balconi of the Università Cattolica of Milan, Professor G. Bastianini of the Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, Professor A. K. Bowman and Dr C. Crowther of the University of Oxford, Professor A. Bülow-Jacobsen for providing information about photos of the International Papyrus Archive (AIP), Dr R. Candace of the Nicholson Museum, Ms A. Dondertman of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Toronto, Dr T. Elsmann of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek of Bremen, Mr 10.1515/9783110426953-203, © 2018 Antonia Sarri, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/24/17 8:06 PM VI Acknowledgements C. Graves of the Egypt Exploration Society, Professor M. El Halwagy of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, Professor J. Hammerstädt of the Universität zu Köln, Dr T. Hickey of the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Ms S. Hodecek of the Öster- reichische Nationalbibliothek, Professor B. McGing of the Trinity College Dublin, Dr R. Jackson of the British Museum, Dr A. Jamieson of the University of Melbourne, Dr U. Kästner of the Berlin Museum, Dr R. Mazza of the University of Manchester, Profes- sor T. J. Moore of the Washington University in St. Louis, Ms A. Poulou of the Museum of Peiraeus, Professor F. Reiter and Dr M. Gerhardt of the Ägyptisches Museum of Berlin, Dr O. Schneider of the Universitätsbibliothek of Giessen, Dr A. Sirogianni of the Agora Museum of Athens, Professor A. Verhoogt of the University of Michigan. Special thanks are owed to Professor N. Gonis of the University College London, who made available to me not only images of papyri of the collection of the Greek and Latin Department of the University College London but also access to its rich pho- tographic archive, where I found unpublished images of many papyri. I am equally thankful to E. Fuchs, who has provided me with images of papyri of the Institute for Papyrology of the University of Heidelberg and helped me to access its photographic archive, where I found many unpublished images, too. I am very thankful to many more academics and friends, who have offered invalu- able support on various aspects at different stages. My endless gratitude is owed to Professor E. Stavrianopoulou for her wise advice and our long discussions on cultural changes in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, Professor M. Choat for our discussions on the authentication of letters, Professor J.-L. Fournet for his advice on handwrit- ing in the letters, Professor E. Giele for our discussions of similarities and differences between Graeco-Roman and Chinese letters, Professor D. Panagiotopoulos for his advice on Mycenean seals, Professor J. F. Quack for useful information about Demotic papyri, Dr C. Tsouparopoulou and all my colleagues in the Institute for Papyrology for their friendship and support. For the editing of the book I thank Ms J. Dreschert, Ms C. Kreutzer and Mr C. Vater. Last, my deepest gratitude is owed to my family and especially to my husband for helping me overcome any difficulties that appeared along the way. Now that I am sub- mitting this book for publication, I am conscious that there is still room for improve- ments and additions, but time has come to let it go to print. I hope that readers will benefit from my efforts. Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/24/17 8:06 PM Contents Acknowledgements V Preface 1 1 The Development
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