Reconstructing Pathyris' archives
Subtitle: a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
By: by Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens
Contributors: Waebens, Sofie
Series: Collectanea Hellenistica -- 3; Collectanea hellenistica -- 3.
Publisher: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9789065690579
Subjects: Antiquities; Civilization; Hellenism; Egyptian language; Sources; Papyri; Columns
Other titles: Multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt
Description: "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"--
Notes: Folded sheets labeled: "Table: museum archaeology and Pathyris' archives" and [family tree] "Descendants of Panechates".