Greek-Coptic Script-Mixing in Egyptian Personal Names and Toponyms of Greek Documents.
This paper investigates the inclusion of "Coptic-only" letters in the spelling of Egyptian personal names and toponyms in otherwise Greek documents. A diachronic analysis of eighty documentary texts (4–8 c. CE), primarily on papyrus, shows an increase of evidence in the sixth century, in line with r...
| Publicado en: | Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 274 - 315 |
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