Lived Time in Late Antique Egypt
Lived Time in Late Antique Egypt is a research project developed by Sofie Remijsen and funded by the VIDI programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The project examines how time was used and experienced in daily life. Its overall aim is to explain how late-antique multicultural communities in Egypt managed to live together, and how the everyday practices of all men and women had a vital role in reshaping late antique society.
The latest developments of the project are presented below.
The majority of unearthed papyri and ostraca lie unedited in libraries across the world, notably those in languages other than Greek, such as Coptic and Arabic. New papyrological editions can corroborate or falsify hypotheses based on evidence that was available earlier. In this blogpost, I will treat the influence of the passing of time on …
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In the project database conversions of dating formulae in edited texts are automatically checked against extensive chronological tables. This process occasionally brings to light calculation errors in leap years or discrepancies based on an outdated understanding of when the indiction year started, which has resulted in an article with corrected dates for Coptic documents and …
In Greek papyri from Egypt, we find two standard meals: the ariston and the deipnon. These daily meals were eaten in this order and are hence conventionally translated as ‘lunch’ and ‘dinner’. Dictionaries will also give the option of translating ariston as ‘breakfast’, but this mostly refers to the early archaic period, when the ariston …
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