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On 23 and 24 February 2018, a two-day workshop took place at Universität Hamburg, dedicated to ‘Linking Manuscripts from the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syriac Domain: Present and Future Synergy Strategies’.

The theme section of this issue of Adamantius collects the proceedings of the international conference The Coptic book between the 6th and the 8th centuries: codicological features, places of production, intellectual trends (Rome, “Sapienza” Università di Roma – Academia Belgica, 21-22 September 2017)1, organized within the scientific activities of the ERC project “PAThs - Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature.

This article aims at describing the first results of accurate autoptic codicological analyses conducted on the papyrus codices preserved in the Museo Egizio, Turin, within the other scientific activities
and goals of the ‘PAThs’ project (Rome). The Turin codices represent a rare example of a well-preserved late antique institutional library that reflects the literary tastes and dogmatic orientations before what

This text summarises the four essays gathered together in the volume, which look at Egypt from different perspectives both as a crucial crossroad of translations and cultural interweavings
and as a vehicle for the formation of literary culture. They have one fundamental aspect in common: an interpretation of Egyptian multilingualism and multiculturalism (and therefore of the translations from one language to another) as a nuanced phenomenon that cannot be explained by means of a simplistic interpretation.

Despite the undeniable fact that Coptic Egypt produced a literature that, with very few exceptions, was Christian, above all in its early production there is a sporadic re-emergence of the ‘classical’ tradition, although sometimes unconscious and invariably revisited in the new Christian perspective.

This article is dedicated to the structural and stylistic analysis of the titles of Vat. copt. 57. Observing the graphic and decorative aspects of the titles of Vat. copt. 57-69, and of Vat. copt. 57 in particular, one can reasonably deduce that the scriptorium of Dayr al-Anbā Maqār involved the activity of different specialists of the making of the book, including persons charged with the specific task of the decoration . This impression is confirmed by internal and external evidence. The comparison with the, more or less coeval, codices of the White Monastery it is very striking.

In this article, I am going to analyse how the typology of Coptic multipletext manuscripts (MTMs) evolved in relation to their content and regional provenance, showing how Coptic literature and Coptic book production underwent a revolutionary transformation that started in the ninth century, becoming something completely different from what it was before.

This article aims at proposing a reflection concerning some socio-religious phenomena of pharaonic and Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt that endure to the Late Antiquity, even if re-shaped and re-modelled to face new necessities. In particular, among the several case studies that might be taken into consideration, it will deal with the practice of the sale and alienation of children that is attested by several textual categories, from the late New Kingdom to the 8th century.

"The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity" summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are also presented. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias.

We present here our methodological approach applied to the study of Egyptian inks in Late Antiquity. It is based on an interdisciplinary strategy, bringing together a variety of disciplines from humanities and natural sciences, and it aims at systematically collecting a statistically relevant amount of data regarding the composition of the inks.