Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East - Bagnall, Roger S. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011)
Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna ; The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East ; Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt ; Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt ; Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East ; Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-174) and index.
Keywords: Written communication -- Egypt -- History; Written communication -- Middle East -- History; Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt; Printed ephemera -- History; Graffiti -- History; Ostraka; Coptic inscriptions -- Egypt; Syriac language -- Texts