Manuscripts and monuments: the ten contracts of Djefai-Hapi and economies of knowledge

Reconfigured and recontextualized several times, the ten contracts inscribed on the walls of the monumental tomb of the regional governor Djefai-Hapi I at Asyut (c. 1920 BC) are a particularly striking example of how different material and different contexts generate new meaning. Originally written...

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Main Author: Jochem Kahl
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures 2022-05-01
Series:Manuscript and Text Cultures
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Online Access:https://mtc-journal.org/index.php/mtc/article/view/4