A multidisciplinary view on material text cultures / Markus Hilgert -- Defining collectives : materialising and recording the Sumerian workforce in the Third Dynasty of Ur / Agnès Garcia-Ventura -- A GIS̆ on a tree : interactions between images and inscriptions on Neo-Assyrian monuments / Nathan Morello -- From voice to papyrus to wall : Verschriftung and Verschriftlichung in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts / Antonio J. Morales -- Family cult foundations in the Hellenistic age : family and sacred space in a private religous context / Sara Campanelli -- The Didyma inscription : between legislation and palaeography / Flavia Manservigi and Melania Mezzetti -- The symbolic repertoire of the Qur'anic board in Islamic Africa / Anastasia Grib
Summary
Part of an interdisciplinary project whose goal is to shed new light on how writing was conceptualized, materialized, and contextualized in societies without widespread means of mass-producing inscribed objects, thereby contributing to the understanding of the material text cultures privileged by those societies. This volume comprises six studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies, from the 3rd-millennium cuneiform textual record of ancient Mesopotamia to the 20th-century Qur'anic boards of northern and central African provenience