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What counts as evidence in an ancient papyrus or inscription?

Add to Calendar What counts as evidence in an ancient papyrus or inscription?The Buttery
Lectures and Seminars
Location
The Buttery
Speakers
Professor Trevor Evans (Macquarie University); Dr Charles Crowther (Queen's College, Oxford)
Cluster
Ancient World Cluster
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Not Required
Accessibility
There is provision for wheelchair users.
Contact name
Philomen Probert
Contact email
philomen.probert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Some of our most direct evidence for the ancient world consists of documents that survive on papyrus or stone. But how do we get from an ancient I.O.U. to a conclusion about the world in which the writer lived? What assumptions are involved, and where do reasonable scholars disagree?