Perspectives on Panopolis: An Egyptian town from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest

Acts From an International Symposium Held in Leiden on 16, 17 and 18 December 1998
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-11753-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 286 Seiten, Gewicht: 1131 g

Reihe: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava

Panopolis, the modern town of Akhmîm in Southern Egypt, was in Graeco-Roman times an important religious and cultural centre. Its gigantic temple was a stronghold of traditional Egyptian religion. In Late Antiquity it became a major centre of Hellenistic literature and learning and, at the same time, of Coptic monasticism.
The sources for Graeco-Roman Panopolis are numerous and diverse. They not only include numerous texts of all genres in various scripts and languages, but archaeological artefacts too. This volume brings together seventeen contributions, dealing with epigraphy, both hieroglyphic and Greek, Greek papyri, Demotic funerary texts, Coptic literature and local monastic architecture. Without neglecting the heuristic problems which these various sources pose, they conjure up a vivid picture of a world marked by profound religious and cultural change.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history and religion of Graeco-Roman Egypt and Late Antiquity in general, as well as egyptologists, demoticists, coptologists, classical scholars, especially papyrologists, and students of early Egyptian Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muhs, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Participants
Preface
Abbreviations
R.S. BAGNALL, Public Administration and the Documentation of Roman Panopolis
H. BEHLMER, The City as Metaphor in the Works of Two Panopolitans: Shenoute and Besa
A. BLASIUS, Eine bislang unpublizierte Priesterstatuette aus dem ptolemäischen Panopolis
M. CHAUVEAU, Rive droit, rive gauche. Le nome panopolite au Iie et IIIe siècles de notre ère
L. CRISCUOLO, A Textual Survey of Greek Inscriptions from Panopolis and the Panopolite
M. DEPAUW, The Late Funerary Material from Akhmim
M.-TH. DERCHAIN-URTEL, Epigraphische Anmerkungen zu den Stelen aus Achmim
S. EMMEL, From the Other Side of the Nile: Shenute and Panopolis
P. GROSSMANN, Die klassischen Wurzeln in Architektur und Dekorsystem der großen Kirche des Schenuteklosters bei Suhag
J. HELDERMAN, Panopolis im Triadon
S. MCNALLY, Syncretism in Panopolis? The Evidence of the Mary Silk in the Abegg Stiftung
M. MERTENS, Alchemy, Hermetism and Gnosticism at Panopolis c. 300 A.D.: The Evidence of Zosimus
P. VAN MINNEN, The Letter (and Other Papers) of Ammon: Panopolis in the Fourth Century A.D.
M. MOSHER, JR., The Book of the Dead Tradition at Akhmim during the Late Period
T. ORLANDI, The Library of the Monastery of Saint Shenute at Atripe
M. SMITH, Aspects of the Preservation and Transmission of Indigenous Religious Traditions in Akhmim and its Environs during the Graeco-Roman Period
H.-J. THISSEN, Achmim und die demotische Literatur

Indexes
Plates

Über Autor(innen)

A. Egberts, Ph.D. (1993), Leiden, teaches in the Department of Egyptology and Coptology of Leiden University. He is an expert in later Egyptian literature as well as in the traditional religion of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
B.P. Muhs, Ph.D. (1996), University of Pennsylvania, is a staff member of the Papyrological Institute of Leiden University. He is a specialist in Demotic administrative texts and the socio-economic history of Late Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt.
J. van der Vliet, Ph.D. (1996), Leiden, teaches Coptic in the Department of Egyptology and Coptology of Leiden University. He has published extensively on most aspects of ancient Coptic culture, including monasticism, gnosticism, magic and epigraphy.