Word: arsinoe
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...material, the institute depends mostly on mummies from the cemetery of Ghoran, a village in Upper Egypt. Since Ghoran's unlettered countryfolk produced too little waste papyrus to wrap their own dead, their undertakers went to Arsinoë, the provincial capital, and bought the contents of its wastebaskets, which were kept filled by the papyrus work of the swarming provincial bureaucracy. Most of the papyrus sheets that Professor Bataille untangles are startlingly similar to the waste paper of a modern office building -receipted bills, accounts, inventories, private and government contracts. This material fascinates historians with the light it casts...
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