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Burned after reading: the so-called list of Alexandrian librarians in P. Oxy. X 1241
This article calls into question the value and reliability of the contents of P.Oxy. X 1241, the so-called list of Alexandria Librarians. Rather than treating the list of grammarians at col.
Jackie Murray
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Gold mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from New Kingom to medieval times. New insight from the Samut district [PDF]
Gold was plentiful in Egypt and had been used by the Pharaohs from the earliest times as a means of asserting their power. But the history and archaeology of the mining and production of Egyptian gold is a lot less known than the splendour of the country’
Bérangère Redon +2 more
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Egyptians and Byzantium. On the Question of Political Subjectivity in Late Antiquity
Introduction. The article focuses on the reasons for the lack of political subjectivity among the Egyptians in the Byzantine period (4th – first half of the 7th centuries).
Anton Voytenko
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A NEW DEMOTIC PRIVATE LETTER FROM DĀR AL-KUTUB AL-MISRĪYA (INV. NO. 3141 AND 3140) [PDF]
The subject of this paper is a papyrus document that belongs to a collection containing various papyri and fragments housed now in Dār al-Kutub al-Misrīya.
Mahmoud Labib el-Bokl
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“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances”: Interpreting Ptolemies' mixed statuary
Around the time the postcolonial paradigm was establishing in the Humanities, so too was the Ptolemaic period receiving growing attention. Scholars studying this chronology, during the second half of the twentieth century, however, understood Egypt’s ...
Catarina Miranda
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POLITICS AND RELIGION IN GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT [PDF]
Religion and politics always have been interconnected. Throughout the ages, the rulers used the religion to achieve some political goals. This started in the Pharaonic period, and was later used by the Ptolemies and the Roman Emperors to stabilize their ...
Heba Magdy
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: This publication comprises the slightly revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, which was submitted in 2017 to the Philosophical Faculty of Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen.
Stefan Bojowald
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The Pelusiac Branch and Its Canal to the Red Sea during the Ptolemaic Period [PDF]
The Pelusiac branch of the Nile was one of the most important branches during the Ptolemaic period, playing a crucial strategic and economic role. This branch, along with the canal that extended from it to the Bitter Lakes, ran through the eastern part ...
Ahmed Hafez
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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Abstract This paper introduces the concept of platform auxiliaries to identify a set of actors that provide independent resources explicitly designed to support complementors in their value creation and capture activities. Platform auxiliaries capitalize on unmet needs of complementors within platforms, offering services such as third‐party software ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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