Memphis Under The Ptolemies

Author : Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400843053

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Memphis Under the Ptolemies by Dorothy J. Thompson Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0691035938

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Memphis Under the Ptolemies by Dorothy J. Thompson Pdf

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 : Edwyn Bevan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317682240

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A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Routledge Revivals) by Edwyn Bevan Pdf

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 : Sally-Ann Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351217163

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Petrie's Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis by Sally-Ann Ashton Pdf

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 : Kostas Buraselis,Mary Stefanou,Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107355514

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The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile by Kostas Buraselis,Mary Stefanou,Dorothy J. Thompson Pdf

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 : Dorothy J. Crawford,Jan Quaegebeur,Willy Clarysse
Publisher : Peeters Pub & Booksellers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042927631

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Studies on Ptolemaic Memphis by Dorothy J. Crawford,Jan Quaegebeur,Willy Clarysse Pdf

Author : Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802866257

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The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism by Daniel C. Harlow Pdf

Based on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.

Author : Paul Edmund Stanwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292787476

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Portraits of the Ptolemies by Paul Edmund Stanwick Pdf

As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.

Author : Wendy A. Cheshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Artisans
ISBN : 0615574815

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The Ptolemies in Memphis, 130-80 B.C. by Wendy A. Cheshire Pdf

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 : Eve A. E. Reymond
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 3447021683

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From the Records of a Priestly Family from Memphis by Eve A. E. Reymond Pdf

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 : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567381743

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A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 2 by Lester L. Grabbe Pdf

This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history of the Persian period, but the early Greek period is possibly even less known. This volume brings together all we know about the Jews during the period from Alexander's conquest to the eve of the Maccabaean revolt, including the Jews in Egypt as well as the situation in Judah. Based directly on the primary sources, which are surveyed, the study addresses questions such as administration, society, religion, economy, jurisprudence, Hellenism and Jewish identity. These are discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history. A strength of the study is its extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography (approximately one thousand items).

Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107113367

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The Ancient Egyptian Economy by Brian Muhs Pdf

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.

Author : Marcos Martinon-Torres,Thilo Rehren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315433554

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Archaeology, History and Science by Marcos Martinon-Torres,Thilo Rehren Pdf

Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of information relate to each other, or explicit attempts at developing successful strategies for interdisciplinary work. The authors in this volume provide such critical perspectives, examining materials from a wide range of cultures and time periods to demonstrate the added value of combining in their research seemingly incompatible or even contradictory sources. Case studies include explorations of the symbolism of flint knives in ancient Egypt, the meaning of cuneiform glass texts, medieval metallurgical traditions, and urban archaeology at industrial sites. This volume is noteworthy, as it offers novel contributions to specific topics, as well as fundamental reflections on the problems and potentials of the interdisciplinary study of the human past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004210868

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Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt by Anonim Pdf

Against the background of questions on cultural identity and memory, this book offers an overview of the development of the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, often presenting new or unpublished material.

Author : Samuel Sharpe
Publisher : London : E. Moxon
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Egypt
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009501941

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The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies by Samuel Sharpe Pdf