Architectural styles of ancient Alexandria : elements of architectural decoration from Polish excavations at Kom el-Dikka, 1960-1993 /
: Translation of : Style architektoniczne starożytnej Aleksandrii. : 369 pages, 154, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plan ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9788392231950
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt /
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Current questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies' Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.
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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004235519 :
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Hellenistic painted goblets in Alexandria /
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Les gobelets peints ont été durant de longues années considérés comme un groupe de céramique égyptienne unique et difficile à définir. Leur riche iconographie restait incomprise et leur datation placée à l'époque romaine ou romaine tardive. L'examen de la collection de tessons réunie par Lukas Benaki dans les années 1930 dans la nécropole de Hadra à Alexandrie et conservée au British Museum, au Musée gréco-romain d'Alexandrie et au Musée Benaki d'Athènes et de quelques vases complets, ainsi que des fragments mis au jour dans des fouilles récentes bien stratifiées à Alexandrie a permis de conforter la datation à l'époque hellénistique (IIe-Ier siècle av.0J. -C.), proposée par D. Bailey et de fixer leur lieu de production en Maréotide. Il a été possible d'identifier des scènes de procréation, d'accouchement et de banquet, associées à des représentations d'une nature prolifique, qui placent ces vases dans un contexte cultuel de célébration de la vie et de la renaissance. Ce volume a recu le prix "A la Mémoire de Jean Leclant" décerné par la Fondation Michela Schiff Giorgini en 2020.
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325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index. :
9782490128129 :
1110-6441 ;
Les amphores Lamboglia 2 de production adriatique et campanienne : une étude à partir des épaves Qaitbay 1 (Alexandrie) et Sa Nau Perduda (Catalogne) /
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Les Lamboglia 2 figurent parmi les amphores italiques les plus largement produites a l'epoques tardo-republicaine. Cet ouvrage revient de maniere synthetique sur leur production, leur typologie et leur diffusion, en dressant notamment un inventaire des epaves concernees. Il aborde egalement ces questions au travers de l'etude de plusieurs d'entre elles. Celle de Qaitbay 1, stuee au large d'Alexandrie, transportait majoritairement des formes dites tardives, issues des ateliers adriatiques, ainsi que plusieurs Lamboglia 2 campaniennes. Cer dernieres amphores composent l'essentiel du chargement de l'epave de Sa Nau Perduda, situee dans la region de Gerone. Elle est presentee ici en detail, de meme que plusieurs autres exemples ou ces productions ont ete documentees"--back cover
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342 pages : ill. in black and in color, maps, plans. ; 28 cm. :
9782490128167
Singing Alexandria : music between practice and textual transmission /
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This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full use of literary, papyrological and epigraphic evidence, and in particular includes a detailed philological analysis of surviving musical papyri and of their relationship to the editorial activity of Alexandrian scholarship. The study helps to relocate musical documents in the world of their production and reception.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Scuola normale superiore, Pisa, 2003. :
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : facsimiles. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and indexes. :
9789047408970 :
0169-8958 ; :
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The Alexandrian riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of the Jews : a historical reconstruction /
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Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-314) and indexes. :
9789047441915 :
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