Reconstructing Pathyris' archives : a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
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Reconstructing Pathyris' archives : a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
（Collectanea hellenistica, 3）
Publicate van het wetenschappelijk comité klassieke studies van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor wetenschappen en kunsten, 2009
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Multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
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Folded sheets labeled: "Table: museum archaeology and Pathyris' archives" and [family tree] "Descendants of Panechates"
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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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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