Quirke, Stephen (2011). Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC. In: Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, pp. 279-294. Norderstedt: Books on Demand (BoD). ISBN 978-3-8423-5032-8
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Abstract
Handwriting raises issues alive in archaeological debates, philosophical and historical. In turn, by their extreme fragmentariness, the earliest archaeological manuscripts could generate usefully different questions for the field of palaeography. Here, digitisation offers new common ground for the separate disciplines in the study of the past. For current archaeological discussions of structure and agency, manuscripts pose the act of writing, between social and individual. For debates over literacy and power in part- literate societies, an archaeological hoard of manuscript fragments offers opportunities to assess our chances of knowing, for one time and place, how many writings and writers. The largest earliest group of writing on papyrus-paper comprises several thousand small fragments from Lahun in Egypt (about 1850–1750 BC). Traditional methods of recording similarity and difference across the collection can now be accelerated to a point of qualitative change, by applying image-matching software. This paper considers the potential of computer-aided palaeography for generating new research agendas.
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Corporate Creators: | Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) | ||||||||||||||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43548 | ||||||||||||||||
Title of Book: | Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Series Name at the University of Cologne: | Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik | ||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 279-294 | ||||||||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Books on Demand (BoD) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Norderstedt | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN: | 978-3-8423-5032-8 | ||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 2: Archäologie, Altertumskunde und Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums > Archäologisches Institut > Abteilung für Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Data processing Computer science Library and information sciences Other languages Geography and history History of ancient world |
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References: | http://www.i-d-e.de [IDE-Homepage] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/2-kpdz1 [Presentation of volume 1] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/3-kpdz2 [Presentation of volume 2] http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/2939/ [KPDZ1 online] | ||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/4354 |
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