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Title: Ostraca from Western Thebes
Subtitle: Provenance and History of the Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Columbia University
Author(s): O'CONNELL, Elisabeth R.
Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume: 43    Date: 2006   
Pages: 113-137
DOI: 10.2143/BASP.43.0.3209390

Abstract :
This paper is an attempt to localize published and unpublished Coptic ostraca within their archaeological contexts, in part taking up a challenge in recent work on texts and material culture (e.g., T. Gagos, J.E. Gates, and A.T. Wilburn, 'Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, Debating Meaning', BASP 42 [2005] 171-188). In its focus on material excavated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it is intended to complement the work of T.G. Wilfong on material excavated at Medinet Habu by the Oriental Institute ('Western Thebes in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: A Bibliographic Survey of Jême and its Surroundings', BASP 26 [1989] 89-145).

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