Reconstructing Pathyris' Archives: A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt

by S Waebens and K Vandorpe

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9065690573
• ISBN13: 9789065690579
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 10.2"