Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond

Author(s): Janet H. Johnson.
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Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51

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Egypt from its incorporation into the Persian empire in 525 B.C. was home to a multi-cultural society with several strong cultural traditions. An Egyptian majority population lived in contact (sometimes closer, sometimes more distant; sometimes more frequent, sometimes less frequent) with non-Egyptian populations who had come to reside in Egypt. By the Hellenistic period these non-Egyptian populations included large numbers of Greeks and Macedonians who had settled in Egypt after its conquest by Alexander the Great, as well as Jews and other semitic-speaking people from Syria-Palestine; after Egypt's incorporation into the Roman empire, Roman citizens and Roman soldiers from around the empire appear more and more frequently. Integrated study of the period from Cambyses to Constantine (a period of almost 1,000 years), therefore, requires knowledge and appreciation of the material remains (documentary, artistic, architectural, and archaeological) and cultural antecendents of several cultures. The rich documentary and "archaeological" resources preserved from this period would allow it to serve as a model for analysis of other multi-cultural societies.

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Table of Contents

Schedule of the Symposium
List of Figures and Acknowledgments
List of Plates and Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

  1. Observations on Civil Jurisdiction in Late Byzantine and Early Arabic Egypt. Schafik Allam
  2. Unpublished Demotic Texts in the British Museum. Carol A. R. Andrews
  3. The Cultural Transformation of Egypt as Suggested by a Group of Enthroned Male Figures from the Faiyum. Rober Steven Bianchi
  4. Egyptians and Greeks in an Early Laographia Account (P. Berol. 25161). William Brashear
  5. Hecataeus of Abdera's History of Egypt. Stanley M. Burstein
  6. Some Greeks in Egypt. Willy Clarysse
  7. A Cult Function for the So-Called Faiyum Mummy Portraits? Lorelei H. Corcoran
  8. The Lake of Moeris: A Reprise. Eugene Cruz-Uribe
  9. The Kbn.wt Vessels of the Late Period. John Coleman Darnell
  10. About the Origins of Early Demotic in Lower Egypt. Ola el-Aguizy
  11. Three Mirrors with Demotic Inscriptions. Adel Farid
  12. The Wandering Personnel of the Temple of Narmuthis in the Faiyum and Some Toponyms of the Meris of Polemon. Paolo Gallo
  13. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Arabes, and Ioudaioi, in the First Century A.D. Tax Archive from Philadelphia: P. Mich. inv. 880 recto and P. Princ. III 152 revised. Ann Ellis Hanson
  14. The Persian Claim to Kush in Light of Evidence from Lower Nubia. Lisa A. Heidorn
  15. Archives bilingues de Nomarques dans les Papyrus de Ghôran. Suzanne Héral
  16. Some Thoughts on the Subject "'State' and 'Church' in Ptolemaic Egypt." Werner Huss
  17. Die Medinet Habu Ostraca: Excavation of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago 1928/29. Ursula Kaplony-Heckel
  18. Der thebanische Acker-Schreiber Sesostris, Sohn des Anchoapis. Ursula Kaplony-Heckel
  19. A First Century Archive from Oxyrhynchos or Oxyrhynchite Loan Contracts and Egyptian Marriage. Traianos Gagos, Ludwig Koenen, and Brad E. McNellen
  20. Die ägyptischen Priester des ptolemäischen Königskultes (Zusammenfassung). Eddy Lanciers
  21. Visitors to Elephantine: Who Were They? Herwig Maehler
  22. Demotic Contracts as Evidence in a Court Case? Cary J. Martin
  23. Ancestor Cults at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt: A Case for Greco-Egyptian Oecumenism. Roger V McCleary
  24. Bibliography and Description of Demotic Literary Texts: A Progress Report. Jan Mertens
  25. A Bilingual Account of Monies Received. James H. Midgley
  26. Demotische Termini zur Landesgliederung Ägyptens. Renate Müller-Wollermann
  27. Demotic and Greek Ostraca in the Third Century B.C. Brian Muhs
  28. Report on New Demotic Texts from Tuna-el-Gebel. Abdel-Halim Nur-el-Din
  29. The Basilikos Grammateus. John F. Oates
  30. Aramaic-Demotic Equivalents: Who Is the Borrower and Who the Lender? Bezalel Porten
  31. Greco-Egyptian Double Names as a Feature of a Bi-Cultural Society. Jan Quaegebeur
  32. Jews and Other Immigrants in Late Period Egypt. J. D. Ray
  33. The Administration of Late Ptolemaic Egypt. Linda Ricketts
  34. Implicit Models of Cross-Cultural Interaction: A Question of Noses, Soap, and Prejudice. Robert K. Ritner
  35. Writing Egyptian: Scripts and Speeches at the End of Pharaonic Civilization. Alessandro Roccati
  36. Foreigners in the Documents from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, Saqqara. H. S. Smith
  37. Demotic Literature and Egyptian Society. W. J. Tait
  38. Greek and Demotic School-Exercises. Emmanuel Tassier
  39. Greeks or Copts?: Documentary and Other Evidence for Artistic Patronage During the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods at Herakleopolis Magna and Oxyrhynchos, Egypt. Thelma K. Thomas
  40. Literacy and the Administration in Early Ptolemaic Egypt. Dorothy J. Thompson
  41. L'Armée de Terre Lagide: Reflet d'un monde multiculturel? E. Van't Dack
  42. The Tithe of the Scribes (and) Representatives. S. P. Vleeming
  43. Demotische Stelen aus Terenuthis. J. K. Winnicki
  44. Ein Zug nach Nubien unter Amasis. Karl-Theodor Zauzich
     
  • Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51
  • Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1992
  • ISBN 0-918986-84-2
  • Pp. xxvii + 514, 10 figures; 32 plates; 5 tables
  • Paperback, 9 × 11.75 inches
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