Memphis Under The Ptolemies

Author : Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843057
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memphis Under the Ptolemies written by Dorothy J. Thompson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Author : Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691035932
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memphis Under the Ptolemies written by Dorothy J. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Memphis on the Nile, which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great, became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. Drawing on archaeological findings and on an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. Memphis under the Ptolemies will interest students of intercultural relations and will be essential reading for Egyptologists, papyrologists, and historians of the Hellenistic world, including those concerned with religion. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Author : Dorothy J. Crawford
Publisher : Peeters Pub & Booksellers
ISBN 13 : 9789042927636
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies on Ptolemaic Memphis written by Dorothy J. Crawford and published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally-Ann Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135121716X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petrie's Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis written by Sally-Ann Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. For too long, its importance during this critical period has been wrongly eclipsed by the younger city of Alexandria. This book challenges such assumptions by taking a closer look at Memphis through the lens of the rich material excavated there by Flinders Petrie over a century ago, and exhibited in University College London’s Petrie Museum. These finds bring alive the diversity of the city’s inhabitants and raise questions, still relevant today, about the representations and realities of ethnic groups. This book presents the excavation background to the finds, their manufacturing processes and their cultural implications. It is accompanied by downloadable resources that illustrate this informative and neglected material.

Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107113369
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Economy written by Brian Muhs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.

Author : Kostas Buraselis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107355516
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile written by Kostas Buraselis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that of its admirals. Egypt's close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the transport of goods on the Nile and by sea. Along with the trade in grain came the exchange of other products. Ptolemaic kings used their wealth for luxury ships and the dissemination of royal portraiture was accompanied by royal cult. Alexandria, the new capital of Egypt, attracted poets, scholars and even philosophers; geographical exploration by sea was a feature of the period and observations of the time enjoyed a long afterlife.

Author : Edwyn Bevan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682246
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Routledge Revivals) written by Edwyn Bevan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927, this title presents a well-regarded study of this intriguing and often over-looked period of Egyptian history, both for the general reader and the student of Hellenism. Edwyn Bevan describes his work as ‘an attempt to tell afresh the story of a great adventure, Greek rule in the land of the Pharaohs...which ends with the astounding episode of Cleopatra’. The result is a remarkable synthesis of historical scholarship, prose style and breadth of vision, which will still prove to be of value to Egypt enthusiasts and students of Egyptology.

Author : Eve A. E. Reymond
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447021685
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Records of a Priestly Family from Memphis written by Eve A. E. Reymond and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1981 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the frame of studies devoted to the history of Egypt under the Ptolemies, E. A. E. Reymond presents documentary sources relating to the history of a family of Memphite priests who occupied a prominent position. Their records, inscribed in hieroglyphic and Demotic writing on funerary stelae, range in date from the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphos to the Roman invasion and shed new light on the inter-relationship of Greek sovereigns, Egyptian priesthood and native nobility. This volume includes the relevant texts together with translations, indices and photographs of the monuments concerned.

Author : Wendy A. Cheshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615574813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ptolemies in Memphis, 130-80 B.C. written by Wendy A. Cheshire and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ruins of ancient Memphis (Mit-Rahine) yielded a significant number of Ptolemaic and Roman Period artifacts over the 19th and early 20th centuries, some delivered to the Egyptian authorities and ultimately to the Cairo Museum, others excavated mainly by Petrie, and other sold - fortunately as fairly intact find groups - on the art market. A large portion of the finds comprised plaster casts, molds and sculptors' models and a number of small bronzes from one or more ateliers of metalworkers trained in Hellenistic style. Their products were primarily votives and objets d'art connected with the propaganda and worship of the Ptolemaic rulers, celebrations of the predominantly Greco-Macedonian military and some agrarian religious customs - presumably including the Nile/New Year's festivals. A selection of some of the finest and most informative of these pieces within a fifty-year period of heightened political activity in Memphis is discussed in the present volume as introduction to a broader study in preparation.

Author : Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866255
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism written by Daniel C. Harlow and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.