Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt

A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-14226-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 962 g

Reihe: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava

The book (re)publishes and newly interprets five accounts from the second century BCE Menches Papers. The book offers an imaginative historical reading of the accounts, detailing how in Ptolemaic Egypt various government officials on tour through the country side were received in one specific village (Kerkeosiris) by the local official (village scribe). The accounts also give insight into part of the financial management of the office of village scribe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verhoogt, Arthur

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Ägyptologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Verhoogt, Ph.D. (1997) in Papyrology, University of Leiden, is Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include editions of papyri and ostraca and studies in the history of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, including Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris (1998).