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Memphis Under the Ptolemies: Second Edition

Memphis Under the Ptolemies: Second Edition

Thompson, Dorothy J.

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ArchaeologyAncient EgyptAncient Greece

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ISBN10: 0691140332
ISBN13: 9780691140339
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Feb 26 2012
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.

The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

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