Memphis Under the Ptolemies

Second Edition
2. Revised, Updated Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-14033-9
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Dorothy J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables viii

Prefaces ix

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations xvi

A Note on Transliteration xix

Chapter 1: The Second City 1

Chapter 2: Economic Life in Memphis 29

Chapter 3: Ethnic Minorities 76

Chapter 4: Ptolemies and Temples 99

Chapter 5: The Undertakers 144

Chapter 6: Apis and Other Cults 177

Chapter 7: Between Two Worlds: The Sarapieion 197

Chapter 8: Roman Memphis: An Epilogue 247

Appendixes

A. Memphite Professions Additional to Those Recorded in the Zenon Archive 259

B. The Undertakers? Archive 260

C. A Property Settlement in 197 B.C. 262

D. Apis Bulls of the Ptolemaic Period 263

Bibliography 285

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Thompson, Dorothy J
Dorothy J. Thompson is a fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge, and a member of the faculty of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of the British Academy and an honorary president of the International Association of Papyrologists.