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Title

Perspectives on Panopolis : an Egyptian town from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest / edited by A. Egberts, B.P. Muhs, J. van der Vliet.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Egberts, A.
• Muhs, Brian Paul.
• Vliet, Joep van der, 1949-

Description

xix, 273 pages, 9 pages of plates : illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

This volume of seventeen scholarly essays on Graeco-Roman Panopolis (modern Akhmnm) offers fascinating new insights into how profound religious and cultural changes took shape in a provincial Egyptian town.

Series Statement

Papyrologica Lugduno Batava, 0169-9652 ; v. 31

Uniform Title

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 31.

Subjects

• Akhmīm (Egypt) > Antiquities > Congresses
• Akhmīm (Egypt) > History > Sources > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Acts from an international symposium held in Leiden on 16, 17 and 18 December 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Public Administration and the Documentation of Roman Panopolis / R.S. Bagnall -- The City as Metaphor in the Works of Two Panopolitans: Shenoute and Besa / H. Behlmer -- Eine bislang unpublizierte Priesterstatuette aus dem ptolemaischen Panopolis / A. Blasius -- Rive droite, rive gauche, Le nome panopolite au II[superscript e] et III[superscript e] siecles de notre ere / M. Chauveau -- A Textual Survey of Greek Inscriptions from Panopolis and the Panopolite / L. Criscuolo -- The Late Funerary Material from Akhmim / M. Depauw -- Epigraphische Anmerkungen zu den Stelen aus Achmim / M.-Th. Derchain-Urtel -- From the Other Side of the Nile: Shenute and Panopolis / S. Emmel -- Die klassischen Wurzeln in Architektur und Dekorsystem der grossen Kirche des Schenuteklosters bei Suhag / P. Grossmann -- Panopolis im Triadon / J. Helderman -- Syncretism in Panopolis? The Evidence of the "Mary Silk" in the Abegg Stiftung / S. McNally -- Alchemy, Hermetism and Gnosticism at Panopolis c. 300 A.D.: The Evidence of Zosimus / M. Mertens -- The Letter (and Other Papers) of Ammon: Panopolis in the Fourth Century A.D. / P. Van Minnen -- The Book of the Dead Tradition at Akhmim during the Late Period / M. Mosher, Jr. -- The Library of the Monastery of Saint Shenute at Atripe / T. Orlandi -- Aspects of the Preservation and Transmission of Indigenous Religious Traditions in Akhmim and its Environs during the Graeco-Roman Period / M. Smith -- Achmim und die demotische Literatur / H.-J. Thissen -- I. Divinities, Saints, Persons and Titles.

ISBN

• 9004117539
• 9789004117532

LCCN

2002510852

OCLC

• ocm50559851
• 50559851
• SCSB-1310157

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library