Reconstructing Pathyris' archives :
a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt /
by Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens.

Description

Main Author

Vandorpe, Katelijn.

Related Names

Waebens, Sofie.

Language(s)

English

Published

Brussels : Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale, 2009.

Subjects

Hellenism.
Egyptian language.
Columns.
Civilization.
Antiquities.
Columns > Columns / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028763 / Egypt > Columns / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028763 / Egypt / Idfū.
Egyptian language > Egyptian language / Papyri > Egyptian language / Papyri / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041342 / Sources.
Hellenism.
Egypt > Egypt / Idfū.
Egypt > Egypt / Gebelein Site.
Egypt.
Egypt > Egypt / Antiquities.
Egypt > Egypt / Civilization.
Gebelein Site (Egypt) > Gebelein Site (Egypt) / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005751 / Antiquities.

Summary

"The small town of Pathyris, modern Gebelein, is located south of Thebes. After a huge revolt suppressed in 186 B.C., a Ptolemaic military camp was built in this town, where local people could serve as soldiers-serving-for-pay. The Government took several initiatives to Hellenize the town, resulting in a bilingual society. The town produced hundreds of papyri and ostraka, discovered during legal excavations and illegal diggings at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century. Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens describe the history of the town and reconstruct the bilingual archives by using, among other things, prosopographical data and the method of museum archaeology"--

Note

Folded sheets labeled: "Table: museum archaeology and Pathyris' archives" and [family tree] "Descendants of Panechates."

Physical Description

327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 2 folded sheets (1 table and 1 family tree, both 72 x 26 cm folded to 18 x 26 cm).

ISBN

9065690573
9789065690579

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