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 century and in the 20th century. Katelijn Vandorpe and
Sofie Waebens describe the history of the town and reconstruct the
bilingual archives by using, among other things, prosopographical
data and the method of museum archaeology.
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