Tuesday, February 28, 2012

New Survey of ancient tabulae

A NEW ONLINE PUBLICATION noted by G.W. Schwendner at the What's New in Papyrology blog: K.A. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae preserved from Classical Antiquity.

The publication, which has brief descriptions of a long list of tabulae (inscribed wooden boards), is downloadable for free as a pdf file. Many of these texts include quotations from the Old Testament, New Testament, and other early Christian and Manichean (Manichaean) documents. The editor does not include Hebrew, Aramaic, or Arabic texts, but some of the Demotic ones have an Aramaic component.