La terminologie relative à l’alimentation dans les glossaires gréco-coptes

Abstract

Four out of the eleven Greek-Coptic and Greek-Latin-Coptic glossaries listed in the Mertens-Pack3 database of Greek and Latin literary papyri developed at the CEDOPAL (University of Liege: http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/cedopal/base-de-donnees-mp3/) contain words related to eating practices. In this paper, we will analyse the formal features (writing support, writing, layout, signs) and the content of these four papyri dated to between the end of the 6th and the 7th/8th centuries. We will try to clarify what role the semantic field related to eating practices plays in these texts, and to identify their context of production.