The small town of Pathyris, modern Gebelein, is located south of Thebes.
After a huge revolt suppressed in 186 B.C., a Ptolemaic military camp
was built in this town, where local people could serve as
soldiers-serving-for-pay. The Government took several initiatives to
Hellenize the town, resulting in a bilingual society. The town produced
hundreds of papyri and ostraka, discovered during legal excavations and
illegal diggings at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century.
Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens describe the history of the town and
reconstruct the bilingual archives by using, among other things,
prosopographical data and the method of museum archaeology.
- ISBN13 9789065690579
- Publish Date 1 January 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country BE
- Imprint Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren
- Format Paperback
- Pages 327
- Language English