Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c.2600–1600 bce
This chapter surveys the textual and archaeological evidence for libraries in ancient Egypt c.2600–1600 BCE, discussing surviving administrative ‘archives’ as models for how literary texts could have been circulated and stored. The implications of the material form of surviving manuscripts for issue...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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