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Voices from Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab

A New Field Project on Monument Reuse, Graffiti, and Other Epigraphic Material from the Site
  • Luigi Prada
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New Approaches in Demotic Studies
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Abstract

This paper is a modified version of the one that I offered at the Demotistenkonferenz in Leipzig. Back then, the material that I presented stemmed from two fieldwork seasons of the Oxford Expedition to Elkab (February-March 2016 and 2017), whilst this printed version also incorporates results from the 2018 season. The present contribution intends to introduce a project focusing on the history of Elkab during the Late and Graeco- Roman Period, through the study of graffiti documenting the reuse of earlier monuments and related epigraphic material (including some cases of primary epigraphy). It will present the monuments under study, look at past scholarship concerning them and their epigraphy, present the current project’s methodology and recording techniques, and give an overview of the epigraphic material at hand and of its wider significance. Given the introductory nature of the present paper, detailed discussion and full editions of epigraphic material will be limited to a small, representative selection.

Abstract

This paper is a modified version of the one that I offered at the Demotistenkonferenz in Leipzig. Back then, the material that I presented stemmed from two fieldwork seasons of the Oxford Expedition to Elkab (February-March 2016 and 2017), whilst this printed version also incorporates results from the 2018 season. The present contribution intends to introduce a project focusing on the history of Elkab during the Late and Graeco- Roman Period, through the study of graffiti documenting the reuse of earlier monuments and related epigraphic material (including some cases of primary epigraphy). It will present the monuments under study, look at past scholarship concerning them and their epigraphy, present the current project’s methodology and recording techniques, and give an overview of the epigraphic material at hand and of its wider significance. Given the introductory nature of the present paper, detailed discussion and full editions of epigraphic material will be limited to a small, representative selection.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Abstracts xi
  5. Further Abstracts xix
  6. Poster Presentations / Posterpräsentationen xxvii
  7. Overview of the Program / Programmübersicht xxix
  8. List of Participants / Teilnehmerliste xxxv
  9. Eugene “Gene” Cruz-Uribe xxxvii
  10. A Glimpse on the Site of Nagʿ El-Mashaykh through two Demotic Texts 1
  11. Some Remarks on Bilingual Mummy Labels in the Louvre 15
  12. Tituli ptolémaïques du désert oriental égyptien 39
  13. Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes 93
  14. The Auction of Pharaoh Revisited 107
  15. “This oath is a true oath”: Family Involvement in the Demotic Temple Oaths 123
  16. A Re-examination of P. Tor. Botti 34 A 135
  17. Of Pots, Sherds, and Drachmas 151
  18. A Persian Estate in Egypt 175
  19. Did Steindorff know Demotic? 197
  20. Voices from Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab 211
  21. The “Fayum Library” 249
  22. Inaros in Iceland and Elsewhere 271
  23. Donation Stelae 281
  24. Issues in the Dating of Saqqara Papyri 295
  25. Der verborgene Name des Gottes Amun in demotischen Texten 303
  26. Index 311
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664874-011

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Abstracts xi
  5. Further Abstracts xix
  6. Poster Presentations / Posterpräsentationen xxvii
  7. Overview of the Program / Programmübersicht xxix
  8. List of Participants / Teilnehmerliste xxxv
  9. Eugene “Gene” Cruz-Uribe xxxvii
  10. A Glimpse on the Site of Nagʿ El-Mashaykh through two Demotic Texts 1
  11. Some Remarks on Bilingual Mummy Labels in the Louvre 15
  12. Tituli ptolémaïques du désert oriental égyptien 39
  13. Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes 93
  14. The Auction of Pharaoh Revisited 107
  15. “This oath is a true oath”: Family Involvement in the Demotic Temple Oaths 123
  16. A Re-examination of P. Tor. Botti 34 A 135
  17. Of Pots, Sherds, and Drachmas 151
  18. A Persian Estate in Egypt 175
  19. Did Steindorff know Demotic? 197
  20. Voices from Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab 211
  21. The “Fayum Library” 249
  22. Inaros in Iceland and Elsewhere 271
  23. Donation Stelae 281
  24. Issues in the Dating of Saqqara Papyri 295
  25. Der verborgene Name des Gottes Amun in demotischen Texten 303
  26. Index 311
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