palaeography

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See also: palæography

English

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Etymology

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From palaeo- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

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palaeography (countable and uncountable, plural palaeographies)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of paleography
    • 2020, Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury, The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, page 611:
      Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).