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Vlassopoulos, Kostas. "Greek History." Greece and Rome 62, no. 2 (September 10, 2015): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383515000108.

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Four volumes in this review constitute important contributions to the study of ancient documents and their employment in antiquity, as well as their value for modern historical research. Paola Ceccarelli has written a monumental study of letter-writing and the use of writing for long-distance communication in Ancient Greece; Karen Radner has edited a volume on state correspondence in ancient empires; Christopher Eyre's book concerns documents in Pharaonic Egypt; and Peter Liddel and Polly Low have edited a brilliant collection on the uses of inscriptions in Greek and Latin literature. The first three volumes have major consequences for the study of the workings of ancient state systems, while those by Ceccarelli, Eyre, and Liddel and Low open new avenues into the study of the interrelationship between written documents and literature.
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Bowman, Alan K., and Dominic Rathbone. "Cities and Administration in Roman Egypt." Journal of Roman Studies 82 (November 1992): 107–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/301287.

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These two inscriptions come from the precinct of the temple of Hathor at Denderah (Tentyra), capital of the Tentyrite nome, just north of Thebes in Upper Egypt. The impressive remains of the complex are mostly late Ptolemaic and Roman (re)constructions, but they look Pharaonic and suggest social and cultural continuity across the centuries. The inscriptions, however, illustrate the radical changes in communal organization and administration which the Romans introduced. These changes form the subject of this paper. The first inscription dates to 12 B.C., but is almost entirely in the pre-Roman tradition. It is a trilingual dedication with the primary version in demotic (i.e. Egyptian). Augustus is god, implicitly Pharaoh, and lacks his Roman titles. The strategos (governor of the nome) Ptolemaios gives himself obsolete court titles and a string of local priesthoods. Ptolemaios came from a family which had hereditarily held local priesthoods (and probably continued to hold them after him), and his father Panas had preceded him as strategos of the Tentyrite nome, retaining office through the Roman annexation. On this occasion Ptolemaios' dedication was personal, but other dedications show him acting, like his father, as the head of local cult associations. Ptolemaios is last attested as strategos in 5 B.C. Five years later, our second inscription, which dates to 23 September A.D. I, reveals a very different situation. The dedication was made on Augustus' birthday, and was finely inscribed in Greek only. The strategos Tryphon, whose name suggests an Alexandrian sent up to the Tentyrite nome, figures only as an element of the official dating clause standard throughout Roman Egypt; he is just a cog in the Roman administrative machine. The dedication was made corporately by the local community, structured, as we will see, on the new Roman model.
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Schmitz, Philip C. "The Phoenician Contingent in the Campaign of Psammetichus II Against Kush." Journal of Egyptian History 3, no. 2 (2010): 321–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187416610x541745.

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AbstractGraffiti inscribed on seated figures of Rameses II at Abu Simbel concern participation by Greek, Carian, and Phoenician forces in the Nubian campaign of Psammetichus II in 593 B.C.E. This study considers the major Phoenician graffiti as primary sources. The Phoenician texts do not mention Psammetichus, but do place Amasis in a commanding role. The Phoenician claim to victory comports with the Egyptian claim. The Greek inscriptions illuminate the Phoenician narratives. Unsolved historical problems include: (1) the command structure; (2) whether Amasis in these texts is the later Pharaoh; and (3) the relationship between this campaign and a later expedition against Kush by Ahmose II in 529 B.C.E. Herodotus’ account of Phoenician settlement in Memphis gains clarity from Greek papyri, and Phoenician finds at two Egyptian sites are contemporary with the 593 B.C.E. campaign. The Phoenician contingent possibly fulfilled covenant obligations to Egypt, and Phoenician settlement in Memphis perhaps involved a compensatory land grant.
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Moyer, Ian S. "Herodotus and an Egyptian mirage: the genealogies of the Theban priests." Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (November 2002): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3246205.

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AbstractThis article re-evaluates the significance attributed to Hecataeus' encounter with the Theban priests described by Herodotus (2.143) by setting it against the evidence of Late Period Egyptian representations of the past. In the first part a critique is offered of various approaches Classicists have taken to this episode and its impact on Greek historiography. Classicists have generally imagined this as an encounter in which the young, dynamic and creative Greeks construct an image of the static, ossified and incredibly old culture of the Egyptians, a move which reveals deeper assumptions in the scholarly discourse on Greeks and ‘other’ cultures in the Mediterranean world. But the civilization that Herodotus confronted in his long excursus on Egypt was not an abstract, eternal Egypt. Rather, it was the Egypt of his own day, at a specific historical moment – a culture with a particular understanding of its own long history. The second part presents evidence of lengthy Late Period priestly genealogies, and more general archaizing tendencies. Remarkable examples survive of the sort of visual genealogy which would have impressed upon the travelling Greek historians the long continuum of the Egyptian past. These include statues with genealogical inscriptions and relief sculptures representing generations of priests succeeding to their fathers' office. These priestly evocations of a present firmly anchored in the Egyptian past are part of a wider pattern of cultivating links with the historical past in the Late Period of Egyptian history. Thus, it is not simply the marvel of a massive expanse of time which Herodotus encountered in Egypt, but a mediated cultural awareness of that time. The third part of the essay argues that Herodotus used this long human past presented by the Egyptian priests in order to criticize genealogical and mythical representations of the past and develop the notion of an historical past. On the basis of this example, the article concludes by urging a reconsideration of the scholarly paradigm for imagining the encounter between Greeks and ‘others’ in ethnographic discourse in order to recognize the agency of the Egyptian priests, and other non-Greek ‘informants’.
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Collins, Andrew. "THE DIVINITY OF THE PHARAOH IN GREEK SOURCES." Classical Quarterly 64, no. 2 (November 20, 2014): 841–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000983881400007x.

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It has long been known that the Egyptian pharaoh was regarded as divine in Egyptian culture. He was the son of Re and the mediator between the gods and humankind. During the royal coronation, he was transformed into a manifestation of the god Horus. He could be referred to as antr(‘divine being’, ‘god’), and was regularly described in inscriptions as ‘the good god’ or ‘perfect god’ (ntr nfr). By the New Kingdom period, the king's divinity was believed to be imbued by his possession of a divine manifestation of the god Amun-Re called the ‘living royalka’, which came upon him at his coronation, and which was also renewed during the yearlyopetfestival held in the Luxor temple in Thebes. As late as the period of Persian domination over Egypt in the fifth centuryb.c., Egyptian temple texts continued to describe their foreign king Darius I as a divine being, owing to the ‘living royalka’. This hieroglyphic formula proclaiming the king's divinity continues for Alexander the Great and even in Ptolemaic temple reliefs.
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Kotsonas, Antonis. "GREEK AND ROMAN KNOSSOS: THE PIONEERING INVESTIGATIONS OF MINOS KALOKAIRINOS." Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (June 15, 2016): 299–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245416000058.

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Minos Kalokairinos is renowned for his discovery of the Minoan palace of Knossos. However, his pioneering investigations of the topography and monuments of Greek and Roman Knossos, as laid out especially in hisCretan Archaeological Journal, have largely been overlooked. In theJournal, Kalokairinos offers invaluable information on the changing archaeological landscape of Knossos in the second half of the nineteenth century. This enables the identification of several unknown or lost monuments, including major structures, inscriptions and sculptures, and allows the location of the context of discovery to be assigned to specific parts of the ancient city. Additionally, theJournaloffers glimpses into the collection of Knossian antiquities and their export beyond the island. Antiquities from the site ended up in Athens, and as far afield as Egypt and western Europe, and have hitherto been considered as unprovenanced. They are here identified as Knossian and are traced to their specific context of discovery, with considerable implications for our understanding of the topography, the monuments and the epigraphic record of the ancient city.
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Mastrocinque, Attilio. "The Cilician God Sandas and the Greek Chimaera: Features of Near Eastern and Greek Mythology Concerning the Plague." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7, no. 2 (2007): 197–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921207783876413.

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AbstractA gem in the Museum of Castelvecchio (Verona) depicts the god Sandas of Tarsos with his terrible animal: the lion-goat. On the reverse side there is the inscription YOYO. The epigraphical and archaeological evidence from Anatolia, from Hittite to Hellenistic times, proves that Sandas was a underworld god protecting tombs and sending pestilences when angry. He was appeased by offerings to his terrible ministers, who were usually seven. Similarly Nergal or Erra (similar to Sandas) in Mesopotamia, and Sekhmet in Egypt had seven animal-headed terrible ministers, who were able to bring pestilences and death. A Hittite inscription mentions Yaya as Sandas' female partner. Her name is very similar to the Yoyo on the Verona gem. Sandas was identified with Heracles because of his relations with the underworld realms and his warlike features. The lion-goat of Tarsus was the model of Greek Chimaera. In fact the myth of Bellerophon took its place in Lycia and Cilicia. In Hellenistic age the original form of this monster was better known and therefore we find its typical features in Hellenistic and Roman sculptures and reliefs.
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Blumell, Lincoln H. "A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans." Journal for the Study of Judaism 47, no. 3 (September 28, 2016): 310–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12340459.

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This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identified as a Ἰουδαία she is also styled as an Ἄµα, a title that otherwise only occurs for certain Christian women in late antique Egypt. Thus, this inscription appears to resist a straightforward classification as it employs terminology that straddles religious categories.1
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Scholl, Reinhold. "Alan K. Bowman / Charles V. Crowther / Simon Hornblower et al. (Eds.), Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions. Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt. Vol. 1: Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1–206). (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents.) Oxford, Oxford University Press 2021." Historische Zeitschrift 315, no. 1 (August 1, 2022): 163–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2022-1286.

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Чореф, М. М. "Revisiting the purpose of the embassy of Naaman and Mahes to Rome, or to the prosopography of the Pontic kingdom." Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region, no. 14 (September 23, 2022): 407–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53737/2713-2021.2022.78.29.021.

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Объектом изучения стал травертиновый блок с билингвой на латинском и греческом языках, высеченной от имени понтийского царя Митридата IV Филопатора Филадельфа. Артефакт мог быть фрагментом монумента II—I вв. до н. э., располагавшегося близ храма Юпитера Капитолийского в Риме. Примечательно то, что в надписи упомянуты царские послы: Найман, сын Наймана и Махес, сын Махеса. На основании изучения священных текстов и мифологии, можно полагать, что первый происходил из Иудеи, а второй был выходцем из Египта. Понтийский царь отправил их в посольство для информирования о своих контактах с Хасмонеями и с автохтонной элитой государства Птолемеев, и это должно было поднять его авторитет в глазах Сената и римского народа. The interest of the research was focused on a travertine block with a bilingual inscription in Latin and Greek carved on behalf of Mithridates IV Philopator Philadelphus, a ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. The artifact could be a fragment of a monument of the 2nd — 1st cc. BCE located near the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter in Rome. It is noteworthy that the royal ambassadors are mentioned in the inscription: Naiman, son of Naaman and Mahes, son of Mahes. Judging by the results of the study of sacred texts and mythology, the first of them came from Judea, and the second was a native of Egypt. The reason why the Pontic king has sent the embassy was that he intended to inform the Senate and the people of Rome about his contacts with the Hasmoneans as well as with the autochthonous elite in the Ptolemaic state and thereby increase his authority.
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Warda, Aleksandra Andrea. "Egyptian draped male figures, inscriptions and context, 1st century BC - 1st century AD." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669919.

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Delattre, Alain. "Edition, traduction et commentaires de papyrus documentaires inédits, coptes et grecs, conservés aux Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles: recherches philologiques, historiques et économiques sur l'Egypte copte (VIIe-VIIIe siècles)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211203.

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La présente thèse de doctorat est consacrée à l'étude d'un lot de papyrus conservés aux Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles. La plupart de ces textes proviennent du monastère d'apa Apollô de Baouît en Moyenne-Égypte.

L'introduction s'attache à retracer la genèse du lot et se conclut par un inventaire des papyrus qui peuvent lui être attribués.

Un premier chapitre présente le monastère de Baouît (sources, le fondateur, le site monastique et son histoire, les moines, l'organisation, la place du monastère dans le contexte régional).

Le deuxième chapitre est consacré aux textes documentaires du monastère de Baouît. Différents thèmes sont ensuite abordés: les supports de l'écriture, la paléographie, l'usage des langues (grec et copte), les particularités linguistiques et l'apport des textes édités.

Les 100 papyrus publiés sont répartis dans les sections suivantes: 1. ordres de l'administration monastique, 2. ordres de paiements; 3. comptes et listes; 4. reçus; 5. contrats de prêt; 6. autres contrats; 7. lettres; 8. protocoles; 9. varia; 10. annexe. Divers tableaux et annexes complètent les éditions.

Un dernier chapitre traite des activités économiques du monastère de Baouît (sources, patrimoine, productions, revenus et dépenses).


Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Paganini, Mario Carlo Donato. "Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ee393367-d1ca-427c-b8c2-dcf0998415bc.

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My work is a socio-historical study of the institution of the gymnasium in Egypt, of its evolution and role in the assertion of certain aspects of ‘Greek identity’ in Ptolemaic and early Roman times. It is divided into four sections. (1) Attention is devoted to the study of the gymnasium itself, as institution, analysing its diffusion, foundation, internal organisation and the role played by associations which were hosted therein. The constitution and the characteristics of the governing body (with special attention to the role of the gymnasiarchs) and the financial matters relevant to the gymnasium allow one to draw conclusions on its legal status and social role: it is shown how the gymnasium of Egypt operated in a completely different way from the traditional one which is normally assumed for the Greek poleis, especially of mainland Greece and above all Athens. A possible model of influence is suggested. (2) Starting from the rules of admission into the gymnasium and from the treatment of the outsiders, the social status and social composition of the members of the gymnasium are object of enquiry, focusing on the links with the army and the public administration. It is argued that the gymnasial community should be considered as a complex reality, formed by different components belonging to various levels of the social strata. (3) Educational, religious and recreational activities carried out in the premises of the gymnasium or strictly connected to it are taken into account to give an idea of the ‘daily life’ of the institution and of the ‘behaviour’ of its people, which was likely to be the result of a feeling of ‘shared identity’. (4) The concluding section draws the attention to the issue of identity of the people of the gymnasium more clearly: relation with the ‘others’ and idea of Greekness the people of the gymnasium had about themselves (influenced by the rulers’ policies), access to gymnasia, onomastics, elite classes, mixed marriages, reception of Egyptian burial methods and cults, advantage of ‘going Greek’. It is argued that, although having in the gymnasium the key-element for the assertion of their identity and status of Hellenes, the ‘Greeks’ of Egypt displayed complex patterns of mixed identities and were thoroughly embedded in the social, cultural, religious, and administrative environment of Egypt.
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Frood, Elizabeth. "Self-presentation in Ramessid Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2a5f2c4c-ac92-45f9-b7d7-e17df6eb6dfa.

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Elite self-presentation through the biographical genre is a defining element of ancient Egyptian high culture from the Old Kingdom until the Roman period. My thesis centres on the biographical texts produced during the Ramessid period (c. 1280-1070 BCE), a time of significant change in elite domains of representation. Since biography has not been seen as a significant genre of this period, these texts, which are inscribed on statues, stelae, temple walls, and in tombs, have not been gathered together or studied as a corpus. Yet they are a key to exploring the diverse and highly individual ways in which a self could be fashioned and presented. I take a holistic approach to the interpretation of these texts, in order to examine the ways in which they were incorporated into their spatial and visual settings and could extend beyond them. My introduction sets out my aims and the broader anthropological framework which I apply to the Egyptian sources. The following four chapters are case-studies. Chapters two to four are organised according to site (Thebes and el-Mashayikh, Karnak, and Abydos), comparing strategies of self-presentation in tomb and temple contexts. The fourth is thematically oriented, and looks at the image and role of the king in non-royal biographies. In the final chapter, I draw together the results of my individual case-studies, discussing their common textual themes, the interplays of traditional and innovative motifs within them, as well as the implications of their diverse monumental contexts. I hope to demonstrate that the holistic approach I apply is relevant for the study of monumental discourse in other periods in Egyptian history and has the potential to locate the Egyptian material within broader frameworks for the study of premodern societies.
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Belekdanian, Arto Onnig Arto Onnig. "The coronation ceremony during the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt : an analysis of three "coronation" inscriptions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4b606eb6-dd7e-4a7e-adf8-2234e11b01ef.

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This thesis provides a detailed interpretation of three key texts described in Egyptological research as "coronation inscriptions:" the Historical Inscription of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III's Texte de la jeunesse, and Horemheb's Turin inscription. Similarities and differences between these texts, as well as other sources, both textual and pictorial, are discussed. A clear terminology is laid out, distinguishing between accession (the royal heir becoming king at the death of their predecessor), crowning (the action of placing the crowns on the new king's head), and coronation ceremony (following the accession by some time on which occasion the new ruler would have been bestowed with the crowns and regalia of his office, perhaps for the first time). The main aim of this thesis is to determine whether it would be accurate to label the discussed texts as coronation inscriptions and, if not, how they can best be described. It is determined that the evidence supports the earlier conclusion reached by Redford, that it would be incorrect to speak of a “coronation ceremony” in the dynastic period, for new kings would have been crowned at their accessions in a palace setting, soon after the death of their predecessors, this followed some time later by a public “appearance ceremony” in a temple festival setting. While it is determined that Thutmose III's inscription describes the time when kingship was predicted to him, it is concluded that the Hatshepsut and Horemheb texts narrate exceptional events on which occasion their accessions in a palace and public "appearance ceremonies" intersected.
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Leatherbury, Sean Villareal. "Inscribed within the image : the visual character of early Christian mosaic inscriptions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9ea6f425-7010-4820-b35d-bed33c658b60.

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Between the fourth and the seventh centuries CE, Christian patrons erected thousands of churches, chapels, and monasteries in cities and villages across the Mediterranean, decorating the apses, walls and floors of many of these structures with figural and geometric mosaics. These late antique Christian mosaics have been studied for their iconography, their Graeco-Roman components, and as evidence for the religious beliefs of newly-Christian patrons. However, art historians largely have ignored the ways that texts, inscribed within the visual field and composed of the same mosaic material, functioned as images in Christian spaces. For the first time, this thesis assembles the foundations of a comprehensive catalogue of early Christian mosaic inscriptions, places them back into the physical spaces in which they were meant to be read, and analyzes how these texts functioned both verbally and visually for the late antique reader/viewer, against the backdrop of Graeco-Roman traditions. I first examine the ekphrastic components of Christian inscriptions and look more closely at the different ways in which texts work with and against images and spaces, encouraging the viewer to react physically and mentally. Second, I study the language of light used by the inscriptions, and argue that this language linked text to the material of mosaic and enabled patrons to make complex statements about their cultural erudition and religious affiliation. Third, I investigate the functions and visual forms of short tituli which label scenes or name figures to simplify, authenticate or transform static images into narratives in motion. Finally, I turn to the frames of the inscriptions and contend that different forms conveyed powerful visual arguments. By writing these texts back into their mosaics, this thesis argues that texts and images were inseparable in the period, and that text written into images performed and played in more complex ways than has been previously thought.
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Yiftach-Firanko, Uri. "Marriage and marital arrangements : a history of the Greek marriage document in Egypt ; 4th century BCE - 4th century CE /." München : Beck, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/365091995.pdf.

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Meimaris, Yiannis E. "Sacred names, saints, martyrs and church officials in the Greek inscriptions and papyri pertaining to the Christian church of Palestine." Athens, Greece : Paris : Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation ; Diffusion De Boccard, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18374549.html.

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"Based on the thesis submitted by the author for the degree 'Doctor of Philosophy' to the Senate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1976"--P. viii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes.
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Brophy, Elizabeth Mary. "Royal sculpture in Egypt 300 BC - AD 220." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:590228be-3001-49b3-bf6c-137af08ac71c.

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The aim of this thesis is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items (recognised as statues, statue heads and fragments, and inscribed bases and plinths) that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, that is a secure find spot or a recoverable provenance, within Egypt. I then used this material, alongside other types of evidence such as textual sources and numismatic material, to consider the distribution, style, placement, and functions of the royal statues, and to answer the primary questions of where were these statues located? what was the relationship between statue, especially statue style, and placement? And what changes can be identified between Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture? From analysis of the sculptural evidence, this thesis was able to create a catalogue of 103 entries composed of 157 statuary items, and use this to identify the different styles of royal statues that existed in Ptolemaic and Imperial Egypt and the primary spaces for the placement of such imagery, namely religious and urban space. The results of this thesis, based on the available evidence, was the identification of a division between sculptural style and context regarding the royal statues, with Egyptian-style material being placed in Egyptian contexts, Greek-style material in Greek, and Imperial-style statues associated with classical contexts. The functions of the statues appear to have also typically been closely related to statue style and placement. Many of the statues were often directly associated with their location, meaning they were an intrinsic part of the function and appearance of the context they occupied, as well as acting as representations of the monarchs. Primarily, the royal statues acted as a way to establish and maintain communication between different groups in Egypt.
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Sjöberg, Andreas. "Den antika grekiska bilden av Egypten : Författarnas och texternas beskrivning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352743.

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This thesis studies how three Greek writers differentiate between each other in their texts about ancient Egypt. The three writers included in this thesis are Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch. Their texts describe Egypt and its many aspects, and the names of their texts are as following; Histories and Library of History by Herodotus and Diodorus, and De Herodoti malignitate, De Iside et Osiride and Placita Philosophorum by Plutarch.        This thesis is comparing these writers with each other using two case studies; The Nile and Egyptian cleanness for their gods. The case studies were chosen to limit this thesis upon two aspects of Egypt that the writers should have encountered if they went to Egypt. This brings a theory to light; if the writers' texts are truthfully representing Egypt or if their texts are nothing but literature constructions. This thesis is also looking at how Egyptians are portrayed by the writers with use of the theory the other.        By reading the texts and modern literature about the writers a conclusion is made. The writers are different from each other in their descriptions of Egypt. Herodotus and Diodorus view Egypt as a wonderful land with a wonderful culture. Plutarch is also portraying Egypt with respect as Herodotus and Diodorus but does at the same time view Egypt with a more negative view. This is because Plutarch believes that the Greek culture is the foremost culture in the world.        A problem with all the writers’ texts is based upon that they did not speak ancient Egyptian and could therefore not make use of all the sources presented to them. Herodotus is viewed to not even have visited Egypt. Their texts are to be looked at with a grain of salt even though they clearly tried to represent Egypt as well as they could in their texts. Their texts are to be view as a literature construction simply because the writers did not understand Egyptian and therefore relied on earlier texts about Egypt made in Greek.
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Books on the topic "Inscriptions, Greek Egypt History"

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The roots of Nubian Christianity uncovered and the triumph of the last pharaoh: Religious encounters in late Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2012.

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Scriptural incipits on amulets from late antique Egypt: Text, typology, and theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

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Bernand, Étienne. Inscriptions grecques d'Égypte et de Nubie au Musée du Louvre. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1992.

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Bernand, Étienne. Inscriptions grecques d'Égypte et de Nubie au Musée du Louvre. Paris: C.N.R.S., 1992.

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Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside inscriptions. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1994.

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A, Kitchen K., ed. Ramesside inscriptions. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993.

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Martina, Minas-Nerpel, and Pfeiffer Stefan, eds. Die dreisprachige Stele des C. Cornelius Gallus: Übersetzung und Kommentar / von Friedhelm Hoffmann, Martina Minas-Nerpel und Stefan Pfeiffer. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009.

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Samsarēs, Dēmētrēs K. Hē Rōmaïkē apoikia tēs Phōtikēs stē Thesprōtia tēs Ēpeirou: Historikogeōgraphikē kai epigraphikē symvolē. Giannina: [Panepistēmio Iōanninōn, Tmēma Historias kai Archaiologias], 1994.

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Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: A new epigraphy and prosopography. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

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Rizakēs, A. D. Achaïe II: La cité de Patras : épigraphie et histoire. Athènes: Kentron Hellēnikēs kai Rōmaïkēs Archaiotētos, Ethnikon Hidryma Ereunōn, 1998.

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Knorr, Wilbur. "Techniques of Fractions in Ancient Egypt and Greece." In Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics, 337–65. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2640-9_19.

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Nevett, Lisa. "Family and Household, Ancient History and Archeology: A Case Study from Roman Egypt." In A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 13–31. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444390766.ch1.

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Mairs, Rachel. "Beyond Rosetta." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, 20–34. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0003.

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The discovery and collection of multilingual inscriptions through excavation and the antiquities trade in the nineteenth century played a crucial role in the decipherment of Egyptian scripts. The history of the modern ownership of inscriptions now located in Egypt, Europe, and North America and their role in the development of Egyptology are closely linked. The chapter traces the history of scholarship on several Greek-Egyptian texts, including an unpublished inscription from the Delta, a decree in honour of a member of a prominent family from Upper Egypt, foundation plaques from a temple of Hathor-Aphrodite, and a sphinx from Koptos. The reassembly of stones which were often dispersed and broken into separate pieces through circumstances of excavation or the antiquities market allows us to establish equivalences between Egyptian and Greek concepts, people, and places, and sheds light on the sociolinguistic situation in individual communities, and in Egypt as a whole.
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Hale, John R. "Not Patriots, Not Farmers, Not Amateurs: Greek Soldiers of Fortune and the Origins of Hoplite Warfare." In Men of Bronze. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691143019.003.0009.

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This chapter argues that neither the leisured class of aristocrats who vied for high social and political status within the polis nor the middling citizen soldiers who defended their farmland provides the origins of archaic Greek arms and tactics. Instead, the chapter suggests looking for the first hoplites fighting as mercenaries in the service of Eastern monarchs in areas such as Syria, Egypt, and Babylon. These soldiers of fortune fought in search of gain and glory, not to defend a civic ideology or ethos. Evidence for this thesis can be found in lyric poetry and in inscriptions, pottery, and the remains of hoplite armor discovered outside Greece. Here, the mercenary service is considered the “Main Event” of Greek military history in the seventh century, in contrast to the sporadic battles between poleis.
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van der Vliet, Jacques. "History through inscriptions." In The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia, 83–98. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351133470-5.

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Masséglia, Jane. "Imaging Inscriptions." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, 9–19. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0002.

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The granite obelisk with inscriptions in Hieroglyphic and Greek which was transported by W. J. Bankes from Philae in Egypt to his home at Kingston Lacy in Dorset in 1829 played an important role in the story of the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Young and Champollion. Coinciding with the launch of the Rosetta Spacecraft mission in 2014, new digital images of the inscriptions on the base of the obelisk were made by a team from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford, using the technique of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and allowed improved versions of the texts to be corrected and verified.
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Osborne, Robin. "Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing." In The Oxford History of Historical Writing, 97–121. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199218158.003.0006.

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Clarysse, Willy. "Greek Texts on Egyptian Monuments." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, 35–58. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0004.

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The subject of this chapter is the combination of Greek inscribed texts with monuments or objects made in the traditional Egyptian style. As a rule, Greek and Egyptian monuments each have their own shape, style, and text and are easily distinguishable. However, Greek texts are inscribed quite frequently on Egyptian-style stelai, and analysis reveals important features of the contact between the different cultural traditions, in onomastic and other social and linguistic practices. The study is limited to texts that are part of the monument, either from the start or in a form of reuse, and covers a range of document types, including honorific decrees, petitions concerning rights of asylum in temples, dedications, building inscriptions, and funerary stelai.
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Fischer-Bovet, Christelle. "Soldiers in the Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, 127–58. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0009.

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Soldiers are heavily represented within the corpus of Greek inscriptions from Egypt, sometimes acting individually—especially officers—and sometimes as a group. The most common types of documents are dedications, along with signatures and proskynemata (acts of adoration)—generally simply graffiti. Smaller in number are the funerary inscriptions (mostly from Alexandria), and finally a few honorific decrees and petitions involving soldiers. The aim of this chapter is more generally to explain why there were so many inscriptions concerning soldiers and why their number increased over time, through the analysis of their content, form, and functions. Dedicatory inscriptions offer the clearest evidence for investigating this increase and therefore are the focus of the chapter, though some of the new habits are also reflected in other types of inscriptions. A number of inscriptions set up by members of the military were also preserved in hieroglyphs and Demotic Egyptian on statues and stelai and sometimes concern individuals who are also known from the Greek documentation.
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Crowther, Charles. "The Palaeography of Ptolemaic Inscriptions from Egypt." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, 226–68. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0013.

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This chapter is concerned with the formal characteristics of Greek inscribed writing and their variety and evolution in the multicultural context of Ptolemaic Egypt. The palaeography of Ptolemaic inscriptions is considered in relation both to indigenous written traditions and to the development of documentary scripts in the papyri. The development of lettering styles in decrees and dedications is traced over the course of the Hellenistic period. The particular case of the lengthy multilingual decrees of Egyptian priestly synods is examined separately. Two concluding sections consider, respectively, a small number of inscriptions, for the dating of which palaeographical considerations may provide clarification, and the possibility of identifying individual stonecutters’ hands within the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions.
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