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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
  • Hellenism
  • Egyptian language > Papyri > Sources
  • Columns > Egypt > Idfū
  • Gebelein Site (Egypt) > Antiquities
  • Egypt > Civilization
  • Egypt > Antiquities
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