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 campwas built in this town, where local people could serve assoldiers-serving-for-pay. The Government took several initiatives toHellenize the town, resulting in a bilingual society. The town producedhundreds of papyri and ostraka, discovered during legal excavations andillegal diggings at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century.Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens describe the history of the town andreconstruct the bilingual archives by using, among other things, prosopographical data and the method of museum archaeology.

• 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"