Torallas Tovar, SofíaSofíaTorallas Tovar2020-12-032024-12-032020Torallas Tovar, Sofía, "In Search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt," in K. Bentein, M. Janse (eds.) Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 331) Leiden: De Gruyter, 2020, 141-162.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/8324Torallas Tovar, Sofía, "In Search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt," in K. Bentein, M. Janse (eds.) Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 331) Leiden: De Gruyter, 2020, 141-162.While 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.en-USBook chapterdoi.org/10.1515/9783110614404