Bagnall, Roger S. <br/><br/>
Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East / 
Roger S. Bagnall. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2011. 
 - xiv, 179 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Sather classical lectures ;  Vol. 69 .
 - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. Sather classical lectures ;  Vol. 69. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-174) and index. 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520267022 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520267028 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Written communication--History.--Egypt<br/>Written communication--History.--Middle East<br/>Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)--Egypt.<br/>Printed ephemera--History.<br/>Graffiti--History.<br/>Ostraka.<br/>Coptic inscriptions--Egypt.<br/>Syriac language--Texts.