Memphis under the Ptolemies (Record no. 6904)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691140339
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NVIC
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Personal name Dorothy J. Thompson
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Title Memphis under the Ptolemies
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Princeton:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1988
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 342 p.,
Dimensions 24 cm
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Summary, etc. Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.<br/><br/>The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.<br/><br/>Dorothy J. Thompson is a fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge, and a member of the faculty of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of the British Academy and an honorary president of the International Association of Papyrologists.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
Form subdivision Towns
-- Economy
Chronological subdivision Graeco-Roman
-- Ptolemaic
Geographic subdivision Saqqara
-- Egypt
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