Leatherwork from Elephantine (Aswan, Egypt) : Analysis and Catalogue of the Ancient Egyptian & Persian Leather Finds /
: Leatherwork from Elephantine� describes, illustrates and analyses the finds from the excavations at Elephantine island (Aswan, Egypt) that are conducted by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), in collaboration with the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt (SI). The majority of the finds are dated to periods well after the pharaonic era (4th century AD onwards), save for a few finds from the New Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom. The majority of finds are sandals and shoes. Most important for leatherwork/footwear studies, however, is the footwear from the Persian layers (6th-5th c. BC), which is distinctly different from ancient Egyptian leatherwork. Ample attention will be given to this important group. -- publisher's website. : 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliograhical references and index. : 9789088903717
Archives from Elephantine : the life of an ancient Jewish military colony /
: A study based on three Aramaic archives from the colony, of some dozen documents each, two of which are family archives and the other a communal archive. : xxi, 421 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps ; 25 cm. : Bibliography : pages 347-376.
Nomes et toparchies en Égypte gréco-romaine : Realités administratives et géographie religieuse d'Éléphantine à Memphis /
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Regional and administrative units, nomes and toparchies divided Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt into a multitude of regions and districts, allowing the total control of the state over the land. Used since at least the Old Kingdom, this system has undergone important changes throughout the history of the country. However, the pace and nature of the remodelling seem to intensify during the Greco-Roman period. This book analyses the territorial division of Egypt, between Elephantine and Memphis, and its fluctuations from the third century BC to the end of the third century AD, when the reforms of Diocletian changed the system again. In parallel to the study of the country's administrative division, the religious geography outlined in the nomes lists and processions of this late period is investigated in detail in order to highlight the reciprocal influences between these two modes of perception of the Egyptian landscape. The interactions observed in this study, even minimal ones, make it possible to nuance the fossilisation of priestly geography and thus to reconsider the traditional Egyptological cliché which claims that a strong distinction is to be made between these two geographies, especially during the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. :
xv, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-509) and indexes. :
9782724708455
2724708458 :
0259-3823.
Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt /
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"The Persian period has long been considered a "dark era" in Israel's history. For this reason, research has mainly focused on how it is depicted in the Hebrew Bible. A spectacular discovery of archaeological relics and epigraphic sources was hence hardly noticed: the military colony located on the island of Elephantine in the Nile, on the border between Egypt and present-day Sudan. The basic approach of this volume, which documents a three-year Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft project, is to break with a research tradition focusing on the Judeans (Jews) mentioned in the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine and instead investigate the military colony in a broader historical context also documented by Demotic and Egyptian-hieratic evidence found at Elephantine. The studies presented focus on three main subject areas: society and administration, religion, and literature. They show that historically the island of Elephantine hosted a multicultural society with several interactions between the Egyptians and the other inhabitants, and that it was also an important administrative centre for the Persian authorities."
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xii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783161609961
3161609964 :
0940-4155 ;
Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres : Die Kulttopographie Ägyptens nach den Gauprozessionen der Spätzeit und der frühptolemäischen Epoche /
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Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres' vereint drei Studien zu kulttopographischen Inschriften aus der Spätzeit und dem Beginn der ptolemäischen Epoche. Zahlreiche Quellen waren hier bislang nicht oder nur teilweise publiziert. 0St. Blaschta bearbeitet die kürzlich in Heliopolis/Matariya aufgefundenen Basaltblöcke einer ?Gauprozession? aus der Zeit Nektanebos? I. Die dort eingemeißelten Inschriften scheinen einem Textkorpus entnommen, das seit der Spätzeit bis zum Ende der Ptolemäerzeit an vielen Standorten nachzuweisen ist. Fr. Ghiringhelli untersucht alle Vertreter dieses ?Standardtextes? und zeichnet dessen Entwicklung nach, die anhand einer Synopse nachvollziehbar wird. Spätestens zu Beginn der Ptolemäerzeit wurden Texte verwendet, die sich vom Formular sowie Aussagegehalt stark von den früheren Inschriften unterscheiden. Diese sind erstmals in den Blöcken des Amun-Tempels von Naukratis greifbar, der unter Ptolemaios? I dekoriert wurde. D. von Recklinghausen bietet eine vollständige Textedition und beschäftigt sich u.a. mit Fragen der Texttradierung und der Verwendung von Musterbüchern, da die Texte in Naukratis auch gut zweihundert Jahre später in den Tempeln Oberägyptens zur Dekoration verwendet wurden. Der Band wird durch umfangreiche Indizes erschlossen.
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x, 392 pages : illustrations, one folded plates ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783447111140
3447111143