An edition of Hundred-gated Thebes (1995)

Hundred-gated Thebes

acts of a colloquium on Thebes and the Theban area in the Graeco-Roman period

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An edition of Hundred-gated Thebes (1995)

Hundred-gated Thebes

acts of a colloquium on Thebes and the Theban area in the Graeco-Roman period

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The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile and the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century.

This material constitutes one end of a chain which links on the one hand the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses with on the other hand their tombs and their tomb inventories, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers.

The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid.

It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloquium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloquium are published here.

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E.J. Brill
Language
English
Pages
273

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Colloquium held from Sept. 9-11, 1992, in Leiden, the Netherlands.

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Leiden, New York
Series
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava,, v. 27

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Dewey Decimal Class
932
Library of Congress
PA3301 .P34 vol. 27, DT73.T3 .P34 vol. 27

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Pagination
xiii, 273 p., [7] p. of plates :
Number of pages
273

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OL785366M
ISBN 10
9004103848
LCCN
95017559
OCLC/WorldCat
32590882
Library Thing
1322116
Goodreads
812026

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