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The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (Hardcover)
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The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
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The Ptolemaic period in Egypt (332-30 BC) is one of the most
well-documented periods of the Hellenistic age: in addition to the
papyrological record there are more than 600 surviving Greek and
Greek/Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions, ranging from
massive public monuments, such as the Rosetta Stone, to small
private dedications, funerary plaques, and metrical epigrams for
the deceased. This volume offers a series of detailed studies of
the historical and cultural contexts of these important
inscriptions and is intended to complement the multi-volume Corpus
of Ptolemaic Inscriptions edition, in which the Greek and Egyptian
texts will be presented together for the first time. The subjects
discussed in the twelve chapters range widely across a variety of
sub-disciplines, from advances in new technologies of
image-capture, the juxtaposition of Greek and Egyptian elements in
the layout and iconography of the monuments, and the palaeography
of the Greek texts, to the history of the acquisition and study of
the great bilingual decrees voted by the priests of the indigenous
Egyptian cults, the introduction of Greek civic administration and
communal associations in the cities and villages, and the role of
the military in monumental commemoration. Particular attention is
given to the role of indigenous and Greek religious institutions in
Alexandria and the towns and villages of the Nile Delta and Valley,
in which commemorative dedications to divinities of temples and
statues by the monarchs and by private individuals are numerous and
prominent. In a period shaped by the interplay between Egyptian and
Greek culture, the existence of public and private inscribed
monuments was a vital element of dynastic control. The unique
insights offered by this thorough examination of the epigraphical
landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt are invaluable to understanding the
ways in which the Greek immigrant rulers and population established
and reinforced their social and cultural dominance of an indigenous
population which had its own long-established and traditional
written and iconographic mode of public and private communication.
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