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Reconstructing Pathyris' archives : a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt / by Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens.
- Title
- Reconstructing Pathyris' archives : a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt / by Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens.
- Author
- Vandorpe, Katelijn
- Publication
- Brussels : Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Waebens, Sofie
- Description
- 327 p. : ill.; 26 cm. +
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Collectanea Hellenistica ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Collectanea hellenistica 3.
- Alternative Title
- Multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
- Subject
- Note
- Folded sheets labeled: "Table: museum archaeology and Pathyris' archives" and [family tree] "Descendants of Panechates".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Picture of an Egyptian village : from Pathyris to Gebelein -- Archives, terminology, typology and writing material -- Reconstruction of Pathyris' archives -- Composition of Pathyris' family archives : "family archives are goldmines" -- Survey of Pathyris' archives -- Museums survey.
- ISBN
- 9789065690579
- 9065690573
- OCLC
- 671713739
- SCSB-12894061
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library