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As part of a book project I have been writing on Literary and Documentary Greek Palaeography as t... more As part of a book project I have been writing on Literary and Documentary Greek Palaeography as they relate to early Christian papyri, I have written a chapter on the looped style in documentary and literary texts, including a section on P.Oxy. 4009 apropos of the Saying of Jesus papyrus, P.Oxy. 5575.

Class: An Album of Examples 122-276 CE album intro The first three (no.1-3) pre-date the governor... more Class: An Album of Examples 122-276 CE album intro The first three (no.1-3) pre-date the governorship of Petronius Mamertinus, when this style of writing became prominent. Its origin seems to have been in cursive writing (no. 3 >50%, less so no.1 <25%). Replacing internal pen lifts with loops improved writing speed, so there is a functional component to the more obvious stylistic ones. No. 2 is non-cursive, but uses looped features, though inconsistently. No.4 (PSI V 446, 133-37), a decree from the prefect, is a refined, stylized version of this script (or this subset of stylistic features) written with great regularity. No.5 (BGU 20.2863), a copy of a letter from a judge to the prefect, is in a very similar hand, without the calligraphic refinements.

This is a list of all the uses of apostrophe in Greek papyri, literary and documentary, 1-200 CE

Observing the Scribe at Work, 2021

This is a list of named writers in Greek from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos in the first CE, in Egypt, F... more This is a list of named writers in Greek from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos in the first CE, in Egypt, Fayum Depression.

This is a list if documentary texts from first Century CE Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, Egypt

This is a list of officials from Roman Egypt and the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. It... more This is a list of officials from Roman Egypt and the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. It is supporting data for a paper on Village officials and literacy in the roman Empire.

This flow chart describes a model of the Spelling Module operates from information as to how a wo... more This flow chart describes a model of the Spelling Module operates from information as to how a word is spelled (graphemes, or Abstract Letter Units) to the selection of a particular character shape (allograph), the assmebly of the way the word will be written in Working Memory, the activation of graphic motor codes, and neuromuscular execution.

This is a papyrological dissertation, in which literary, sub-literary, and documentary texts are ... more This is a papyrological dissertation, in which literary, sub-literary, and documentary texts are edited. Of the 14 texts included, 13 appear here for the first time (one is a reedition). Of the literary papyri, most are texts of the Iliad (six). Two are fragments of orators (Demosthenes In Aristocratem, and Isocrates Panegyricus, the latter being a reedition with a new fragment). Extensive fragments of a Byzantine papyrus codex of Scholia Minora to the Iliad (primarily book 5) make up the bulk of the sub-literary texts. The other two are a Ptolemaic multiplication table, and a fragmentary hypothesis to Euripides' Hippolytos Kalyptomenos. The third chapter contains a Byzantine excerpt from the Christmas narrative from Luke's gospel (Luke 2.1-7). The final chapter contains three previously unedited documentary papyri from the Ptolemaic period. The first is a fragmentary letter from the Zenon archive (247 B.C.). The second is an enteuxixs (a petition to the king) from a tax-farmer concerning non-payment of the apomoira (c. 200 B.C.). The last is a petition to a previously unknown strategos (second half of the second century B.C.).Ph.D.Ancient languagesClassical literatureLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/128181/2/8812983.pd

Scribes and Their Remains, 2020

This paper sketches the evidence for village literacy in Roman Egypt, specifically for Karnis, So... more This paper sketches the evidence for village literacy in Roman Egypt, specifically for Karnis, Soknopaiou Nesos, and Tebtynis. Second, it discusses the quasi-documentary Acta Alexandrinorum as analogous to Q. Third, it describes the documentary phenomenon of "plain writing" (i.e. non cursive writing), that are often used for letter-writing and copies of official documents made for readers with a basic level of literacy. Finally, there is an appendix surveying examples of a sub-set of the Alexandrian Stylistic Class (Roberts' "Reformed Documentary") that use loops to connect internal strokes.

TYCHE – Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, 1996

Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity, 2009

Scribes and Their Remains, 2020

This is a list of all the uses of apostrophe in Greek papyri, literary and documentary, 1-200 CE

Observing the Scribe at Work, 2021

This is a list if documentary texts from first Century CE Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, Egypt

Scribes and Their Remains, 2020

TYCHE – Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, 1996

Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity, 2009

Scribes and Their Remains, 2020

The Looped Subset of Alex.Stylistic Class: An Album of Examples 122-276 CE 1) Τhe Alexandrian Sty... more The Looped Subset of Alex.Stylistic Class: An Album of Examples 122-276 CE 1) Τhe Alexandrian Stylistic Class was conceived looking backward. It seeks to trace the origin in the second century of the early Byzantine style script called Alexandrian Majuscule, as seen in examples of the annual Paschal letters sent out by the patriarch of Alexandria to announce the date of Easter. Looking forward from the Roman period, it has been only partially successful. 2) Figure 1 BKT VI.5, 307 (by permission of the Ägyptisches Museum u. Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 3) The phrase "Alexandrian Stylistic class" is difficult to define: Orsini says it is "a class of scripts in which the characteristic features of the style have not yet become canonical (a development that would only occur between the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth centuries CE)." The phrase "stylistic class" itself refers to the seriation of archaeological objects by style, as opposed to by function or chronology.

"Kalligráphoi" blog, 2021

The cognitive-neurological model of how allograph selection takes place, and how the choice is co... more The cognitive-neurological model of how allograph selection takes place, and how the choice is conveyed to the biomechanical sysetm: α1 α2 α3 α4

My project is to collect examples of "plain handwriting" in Greek from the Roman period. Nomencla... more My project is to collect examples of "plain handwriting" in Greek from the Roman period. Nomenclature is part of the problem on both sides of the equation: by definition, I would call it a non-cursive, discrete lettering intended for readers for whom reading was an occasional rather than a professional activity. The reverse is also true: it is a style used by writers who are seldom called upon to use their handwriting, and whose writing resembles the most basic forms taught by teachers. Consqeuently, I have been obliged to pay close attention to school texts and poorly written documentary subscriptions. For this, i made use of recent advances in neurological and biomechanical approaches to handwriting, how it is learned and performed. Novice writers begin by trying to producing letter forms using visual motor integration (almost, but not quite the same as 'hand eye coordination'), consciously controlling the movement of the pen or stylus on ther basis of visual and sensory (proprioceptive) feedback. This kind of movement is called ramp movement, is relatively slow, with many starts and stops (velocity minima) per stoke. Once a novice writer has repeated the necessary strokes correctly for long enough, the movements become subconscious , or automatic, rather than consciously and visually etc controlled. At this point, writing begins to be produced by motor-programs stored and initiated in the premotor cortex and the portion of the fusiform gyrus called "Exner's area". (there is still much that is not about the details of this process, mostly on the level of the neuron, but, for example, it is now known that long held the tolerance of typogrpahical errors, e.g., which held that the brain processes the beginning and ends of words and its "shape" and not individual letter forms per se, is wrong.

A "versio correctior" will follow later this week.

This is part on of a list of Greek Documents in plain writing. Others parts to follow: 2. Traja... more This is part on of a list of Greek Documents in plain writing. Others parts to follow: 2. Trajan-Hadrian 3. Antoninus - Commodus 5. Septimius Severus-Severus Alexander

How well does the supposition that Q was written in a village, rather than in a metropolis, accor... more How well does the supposition that Q was written in a village, rather than in a metropolis, accord with what we know about literacy in Egypt? § 1. Village education: the kind of books found in villages like Soknopaiu Nesos, 1 Tebtynis, 2 an agricultural community, and Karanis, (60 ha.), a large agricultural village (κώμη), about the size of Tiberias or Sepphoris. 3 The basic text associated with a Greek education are found in all three. Of these genres of school literature, Q seems to have most closely resembled a sub-category of Sententia, the Chreia, altough it some has affinities with the Acta Alexandrinorum as well.