The tools and texts needed to properly decipher, understand, and contextualize the fragments will be provided during lessons.
Learning Objectives
• Knowledge:
The laboratory intends to offer a direct experience of all aspects involved in the study and publication of a text on papyrus:
-observation and description of the material aspects of the fragment
-Paleographic description and chronological framing
-transcription, according to papirological conventions
-contestualization of the fragment in the frame of related testimonies
-eventful approach to already known fragments
- detecting of interesting aspects that need comment
• Behaviour
- Encouragement to make intelligent use of the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
Prerequisites
Basic education in papyrology
Teaching Methods
Seminars. All the participants, under the guidance of the Professor, will actively contribute to the analysis of the proposed papyrus fragments. In some cases, digital tools will be explained and used.
Type of Assessment
During the lessons, all participants will be asked to participate orally, to use the work tools, and to produce fragments descriptions and transcriptions in order to demonstrate that they have acquired the proposed method and notions.
Course program
The study of some papyrus texts will be carried out by analyzing the methodological, bibliographic and computer tools needed to produce a commented edition. Part of the work will be carried out on unpublished texts (of literary and documentary content) kept at the Papirological Institute "G. Vitelli", which participants will be able to analyze in the original. Direct work on the fragments will allow participants to tackle the various stages of studying a papyrus, and to use all the main tools of the papyrological discipline.