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 /

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 /

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...

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Other Authors: Egberts, van der (Editor), Muhs, Brian (Editor), Vliet, van der (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; 31.
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava Online, ISBN: 9789004428454.

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Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Egypt > Akhmīm.

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Call Number: PA3301

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.