Horapollon

Abstract

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Public Toilets (Foricae) and Sanitation in the Ancient Roman World: Case studies in Greece and North Africa

“…Although beyond the scope of my research, I think it is important to note how during the Umayyad period (7 th /8 th century CE), the baths built in the entire Near East are similar to some examples of the 6 th century CE, some with foricae (Anjar-East Baths, Andarin-Umeyyad Bath) 453 . This makes the hypothesis of a technical or architectural break linked to the Moslem conquest obsolete 454 .…”

Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets

“…The original date and authorship of the text (divided in two books) are uncertain. Its attribution to a grammarian or a philosopher named Horapollo of the fourth or fifth century AD may be pseudepigraphic;Fournet (2021) argues that the Hieroglyphics as we know it was composed much later, while being based on ancient sources, mainly on the 1 st century AD Hieroglyphics of Chaeremon of Alexandria.4 From the Greek grammata hieroglyphika 'sacred carved letters'; hieratikos 'priestly', and grammata demotika 'popular letters' respectively.…”