Sofía Torallas Tovar
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Sofía Torallas Tovar has a PhD in Classics, awarded in 1995 by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) for her thesis on the “Book on Dreams by Philo of Alexandria.” Her primary research interests are papyrology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, and the history of early Christianity in Egypt. Since 2002 she has also served as the curator of the papyrological collections at the Abbey of Montserrat (Barcelona). She collaborates with the Swiss Institute of Archeology in the excavations in Aswan, Egypt. In addition to her contributions to fields such as administration of Roman Egypt, language contact in the Mediterranean and dreams in Antiquity, Torallas Tovar has authored many editions of papyri. She is currently engaged in an edition of a papyrus roll containing Athanasius’s Letter to Dracontius, the earliest extant witness to Athanasius’s works, and a critical edition of the Coptic versions of the Gospel of Mark in collaboration with Anne Boud’hors (IRHT Paris). Over the past nine years, she has collaborated with Christopher Faraone on the project “Transmission of Magical Knowledge,” dedicated to the publication of Greco-Egyptian magical papyri. Their work was recently recognized with the Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society of Classical Studies (USA).
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- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsArchaeological and epigraphical survey of the Coptic Monastery at Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan)(Edizioni Quasar, 2020)
7 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsBurla burlando: la visión de los indios en un mimo de época romana(Escolar y Mayo Editores S.L., 2017)
2 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsEgyptian Burial Practice in a Period of Transition: on embalming in Christian times(Córdoba Near Eastern Research Unit. The Warburg Institute, 2014)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsEgyptian burial practices in Late Antiquity: the case of Christian mummy labels(Córdoba Near Eastern Research Unit, 2013)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsEgyptian Lexical Interference in the Greek of Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt(Brill, 2004)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsEl control de la población en el Egipto pre y protoárabe(Real Academia de la Historia, 2015)
2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsEl orfebre del insulto. Filón y el griego de Alejandría(Córdoba Near Eastern Research Unit, 2013)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsIn Search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt(De Gruyter Mouton, 2020)Torallas Tovar, SofíaWhile one expects a great deal of linguistic (including lexical) variation in a language spoken over a large geographical space, for languages of Antiquity its study represents a real challenge. The corpus of literary and documentary evidence is both fragmentary and complex. In this paper, I address the lexical variety of the Greek language written and spoken in Egypt in the Greco Roman period. One can expect that the Egyptian variant of Greek would present a large number of loanwords from the Egyptian language as a result of contact throughout centuries. In this paper, however, I only deal with the use of etymologically Greek terms deviating from the general use in Greek literature and in geographical spaces other than Egypt. I sketch what I consider useful strategies to search for information in these complex sources and present a number of examples that can be useful as case studies.
2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsInjuria y vilipendio en los papiros de época grecorromana(Libros Pórtico, 2015)Torallas Tovar, SofíaEl insulto, tanto en la literature como en los documentos, tiene diversos enfoques en su interpretación. Por un lado está el aspecto lingüístico, los términos utilizados para la ofensa, y por otro el aspecto legal. Los papiros de Egipto nos proporcionan muy pocos ejemplos de la proverbial lengua viperina de los egipcios, pero muchos casos de denuncia de insultos y de la consideración que esta práctica tenía entre ellos. Insult in literature and in documentary texts has two possible approaches in its study. On the one hand, there is the linguistic aspect, the precise terms used as offence, and on the other, the legal aspect. The papyri from Egypt provide very few examples of the vocabulary used by the proverbially vicious tongue of the Egyptians, but many cases of complaints for insult and the consideration that this practice had among them.
5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsInterferencia lingüística entre egipcio y griego en los textos de los papiros mágicos. Una aproximación(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020)
4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsLanguages, Scripts, Literature and Bridges Between Cultures(John Wiley & Sons, 2019)
9 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsLatin in the Egyptian Monasteries: A Context for Linguistic Interference(FedOA Press, 2022)Torallas Tovar, SofíaModern lexicography explains all Latin terms in Coptic as adopted through Greek. While it is true that the preponderance of Greek in the linguistic landscape of Egypt can explain most borrowing, actual contact between Latin speakers and Coptic-speakers could also allow linguistic interference not necessarily mediated by the Greek language. It is not easy to ground this hypothesis, since the number of actual examples preserved in literature and documents is very scanty. I will present in this paper some evidence for the use of Latin in the monasteries and the environment in which borrowing was facilitated, followed by a sample of lexical loan exchange between the two languages.
16 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsNota a dos inscripciones griegas de la Tingitana y la lengua de las comunidades judías en el Norte de África(UCO Press, 2016)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
6 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsNota sobre una etiqueta de momia cristiana del Louvre(Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos, 2017)Torallas Tovar, SofíaLas etiquetas de momia son documentos típicamente egipcios relacionados con la práctica de la momificación y ligadas a la religión egipcia. Los escasos ejemplos de etiquetas de momia cristianas son muy difíciles de interpretar, en parte porque sus características distintivas no son inequívocamente cristianas y, en parte, porque su uso no está del todo claro. En este artículo presento una etiqueta de momia que, quizás, contiene una alusión a un texto bíblico. ABSTRACT Mummy labels are typically Egyptian documents related to the practice of embalmment and linked to Egyptian religion. The few Christian examples of mummy labels are very difficult to interpret, partly because their identifying features are not unequivocally Christian and partly because their use is not completely clear. In this paper I present a mummy label perhaps containing an allusion to a Biblical text.
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5 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsThe Montserrat codex miscellaneus (Inv. nos. 126‐178, 292, 338) and the composition of its inks(Edizioni Quasar, 2020)
5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settingsWhat is Greek and what is Coptic? School Texts as a window into the perception of Greek loanwords in Coptic(Harrasowitz, 2013)Torallas Tovar, Sofía
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