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Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis - Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton) (Hardcover)
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Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis - Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton) (Hardcover)
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The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first
time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been
discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. They
were excavated at the site of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of
the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. Rarely have such
deposits been found in situ. Excavated by Ambrose Lansing on behalf
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915-16, the integrity and
context of this find are critical to the proper understanding of
the texts it contained. Through the publication and analysis of
this archive of Demotic and Greek texts recorded on ostraca, the
authors reconstruct the microhistory of Thotsutmis, son of
Panouphis, and his family, who worked in Egypt on the west bank of
Thebes as priests in the mortuary industry during the early
Ptolemaic Period in the third century BC. The forty-two ostraca
published in this volume provide a rare opportunity to explore the
intersections between an intact ancient archive of private
administrative documents and the larger social and legal contexts
into which they fit. What the reconstructed microhistory reveals is
an ancient family striving to make it among the wealthy and
connected social network of Theban choachytes and pastophoroi,
while they simultaneously navigated the bureaucratic maze of taxes,
fees, receipts and legal procedures of the Ptolemaic state.
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