Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. A Framework for the Analysis of Rewriting Practices, and Three Case Studies: Clay Tablets, Wax Tablets, and Erasable Coatings 1
4. The Future of the Past: Rewriting as a Cultural Practice from Handwritten Artefacts to the Digital Age 63
5. Clay and Wax
6. A Restorer’s Look at Rewritable Media: Cuneiform Clay Tablets in Conservation 75
7. Temporality on Clay Tablets: When the Component Parts of a Cuneiform Document Were Committed to Clay 115
8. Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets 161
9. Ashurbanipal and Objects for Esagil and Ešarra: A Case Study of Erasing, Removing, and Replacing Texts at the Height of the Assyrian Empire 191
10. Refill, Reuse, Recycle? Reusing Wax Tablets in the Roman North-western Provinces 217
11. Some Remarks on the Lexicon of Erasure between Antiquity and Middle Ages 255
12. From Wax Tablets to Codices: The Possible Influence of the Stylus Holder on the Structure of Early Multi-gathering Codices 263
13. Wax Tablets as Writing Media during the Middle Ages 309
14. Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, and Wood
15. Reasons for Papyrus Reuse in Ancient Egypt 335
16. Coptic Palimpsests: When, Where, and Why? 357
17. How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Textual Analysis of Premodern Technical Recipes 373
18. How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report 411
19. Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam 439
20. Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning 475
21. Contributors 503
22. Index of Written Artefacts