Roman Egypt : a history /
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"As Ruler of the Two Lands, Egypt's pharaoh wore the double pschent crown: the red crown of Lower Egypt, in the north, surrounding the white crown of Upper Egypt, in the south. Personified in the ruler, this union remained a central ideal throughout Egyptian history. The unity of Upper and Lower Egypt, also symbolized in the knot tied between papyrus and reed, was long seen as key to Egypt's success. (Fig. 1.1.1) In practice, however, the country was diverse in many ways, with an ongoing struggle between the central ideologies of unity and uniformity and the realities on the ground. Egypt was a self-consciously distinctive culture that also constantly received and absorbed immigrants from many countries into its society"--
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xxxiv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781108844901
Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt /
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"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had been subjected to critical analysis or interpretation, and most had largely been ignored. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances, as it sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife"--
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xvii, 268 pages, 16unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index. :
1107256577
9781107048089 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781107626669 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Waters of the Exodus, Jewish Experiences with Water in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.
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In Waters of the Exodus , Nathalie LaCoste examines the Diasporic Jewish community in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and their relationship to the hydric environment. By focusing on four retellings of the exodus narrative composed by Egyptian Jews-Artapanus, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Wisdom of Solomon, and Philo of Alexandria-she lays out how the hydric environment of Egypt, and specifically the Nile river, shaped the transmission of the exodus story. Mapping these observations onto the physical landscape of Egypt provides a new perspective on the formation of Jewish communities in Egypt.
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1 online resource. :
9789004384309
Essays and papers : a miscellaneous output of Greek papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt /
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293 pages : facsims. ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9608501946 :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=633&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=12245790
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search~S0?/tEssays+and+papers%3A+a+miscellaneous+output+of+Greek+papyri+from+Graeco-Roman+Egypt/tessays+and+papers+a+miscellaneous+output+of+greek+papyri+from+graeco+roman/1%2C1%2C1%2CB/marc&FF=tessays+and+papers+a+miscellaneous+output+of+greek+papyri+from+graeco+roman&1%2C1%2C
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