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Graeco-Roman archives from the Fayum

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  1. Graeco-Roman archives from the Fayum / by Katelijn Vandorpe, Willy Clarysse and Herbert Verreth ; with contributions by Guiseppina Azzarello, Yanne Broux, Marie-Piere Chaufray, W. Graham Claytor, Lucia Crisuolo, Birgit Feucht, Karolien Geens, Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, Ruben Smolders, Silke Vanbeselaere, Bart Van Beek, Korneel Van Lommel, Sofie Waebens.
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  1. Leuven, Belgium : Peeters, 2015.
  2. ©2015

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Additional authors
  1. Azzarello, Giuseppina
  2. Beek, Bart van
  3. Broux, Yanne
  4. Chaufray, Marie-Pierre, 1980-
  5. Clarysse, Willy
  6. Claytor, W. Graham, VI (William Graham), 1983-
  7. Criscuolo, Lucia
  8. Feucht, Birgit
  9. Geens, Karolien
  10. Hoogendijk, F. A. J.
  11. Lommel, Korneel van
  12. Smolders, Ruben
  13. Vanbeselaere, Silke
  14. Vandorpe, Katelijn
  15. Verreth, Herbert
  16. Waebens, Sofie
  17. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
Description
  1. 496 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables; 30 cm.
Summary
  1. The Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settled here. When villages on the outskirts were abandoned about AD 300-400, houses and cemeteries remained intact for centuries. Here were found thousands of papyri, ostraca (potsherds) and hundreds of mummy portraits, which have made the area famous among classicists and art historians alike. Most papyri and ostraca are now scattered over collections all over the world. The sixth volume of Collectanea Hellenistica presents 145 reconstructed archives originating from this region, including private, professional, official and temple archives both in Greek and in native Demotic.
Series statement
  1. Collectanea Hellenistica - KVAB ; VI
Uniform title
  1. Collectanea hellenistica ; 6.
Subject
  1. Egypt
  2. Archives
  3. Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
  4. 332 B.C.-640 A.D
  5. Antiquities
  6. Fayyūm (Egypt) > Antiquities
  7. Egypt > History > Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D > Sources
  8. Sources
  9. Egyptian language > Papyri, Demotic
  10. Archives > Egypt > Fayyūm
  11. Egypt > Fayyūm
  12. Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) > Egypt > Fayyūm
  13. Papyri, Demotic
  14. History
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Papyri, Demotic.
  3. Sources.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. individual descriptions of collections prepared by different contributors. In addition to contributing individual descriptions, Katelijn Vandorpe, Willy Clarysse and Herbert Verreth coordinated the collection as a whole and wrote the introductory matter.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.