Coptic Non-literary Texts from the Theban Region
Basic data for this project
Description
In this project, which has been funded by the DFG since 2008, Coptic documentary texts from the area of Upper Egypt around Luxor and Karnak on the eastern side of the Nile and from the hilly terrain on the western side are being edited and interpreted. The texts, surviving on ostraca (broken pieces of pottery and limestone), offer a lively impression of everyday life in the secular world, but above all in the monastic life. At present, more than 2500 texts are being processed from Deir el-Bachit, the ruins of a monastery at the northernmost point of Western Thebes, which might have been the largest monastic center in this area, according to the results of excavations that have been underway since 2001 (Egyptological Institut of the University of Munich, and the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo). For the publication, the database "Koptische Ostraka online (Koptoo)" has been developed in cooperation with the University of Munich's digital humanities group. This database provides, in addition to digital publication of the texts, detailed grammatical and semantic analyses, as well as a wide variety of search possibilities. The database will be made publicly accessible in 2016.
Project management at the University of Münster
| Hodak, Suzana |
Project partners outside the University of Münster
- University of Munich (LMU)Germany
Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project
Hodak Suzana (2013) In: Feder Frank, Lohwasser Angelika (eds.), Ägypten und sein Umfeld in der Spätantike. Vom Regierungsantritt Diokletians 284/285 bis zur arabischen Eroberung des Vorderen Orients um 635–646. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Published | |
Beckh Thomas, Eichner Ina, Hodak Suzana (2011) In: ((Bitte Journal prüfen)), 67. Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Hodak Suzana (2016) In: Buzi Paola, Camplani Alberto, Contardi Federico (eds.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th–22th, 2012, and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th–19th, 2008. Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT: Peeters Publishers. Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Published | |
Hodak, Suzana (2011) Other scientific publication | Published |
Talks about the project
| The ostraca from Deir el-Bachit, Western Thebes. Status quo of research Hodak, Suzana (27/07/2016) Elfter Internationaler Koptologenkongress, Claremont, Kalifornien, USA Type of talk: scientific Talk | |
| The ostraca of Deir el-Bachit and the case of the "Anatolios-Zacharias"-Archive Hodak Suzana (01/09/2012) Zehnter Internationaler Koptologenkongress, Rom, Italien Type of talk: scientific Talk |