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Reconstructing Pathyris' Archives: A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt

Reconstructing Pathyris' Archives: A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt

Vandorpe, K.
Waebens, S.

Paperback

Series: Collectanea Hellenistica, Book 3

ArchaeologyAncient Egypt

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ISBN10: 9065690573
ISBN13: 9789065690579
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 327
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
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.

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