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SUMMARY:Rostovtzeff Lecture Series Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antique Egypt: The Struggle of Coptic for an Official Status\, IV
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will present an unpublished set of wooden tab
 lets from Panopolis (now in the Louvre) attesting the use of Coptic fo
 r tax receipts in the 6th century and revisit the archive of Apa Abraa
 m bishop of Hermonthis (c. 595-621) and of the monastery he founded—
 the largest group of legal Coptic texts prior to the Arab Conquest. Th
 ese texts will lead us to examine the role of the Church and especiall
 y monasticism in the development of Coptic for official transactions.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
PRIORITY:3
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