Collectanea Hellenistica
2 primary works
Volume 1
The Judean-Syrian-Egyptian Conflict of 103-101 B.C.
by Jan Krzysztof Winnicki, W. Clarysse, E. Van't Dack, G. Cohen, and J. Quaegebeur
Published 1 January 1989
In 103-101 B.C. a dynastic struggle between two Ptolemaic princes is
fought in Syria and Palestine and involves the Seleucids and the Hasmonean
Alexander Jannaeus. The ancient historians Pompeius Trogus, Justinus and
Josephus give only a very sketchy picture of the events. In the present
volume this is fleshed out by papyri and inscriptions: a correspondence in
Greek and demotic of Ptolemaic soldiers on campaign to their relatives in
far-away Pathyris, a funerary epigram in Edfou, a hieroglyphic inscription
for a Ptolemaic general, perhaps even some material from Qumran. The
multilingual documentation asks for a multidisciplinary approach by
papyrologists, demotists, Egyptologists, semitists and historians. This
was the last great work of E. Van 't Dack, who headed the team, and was
responsible for the historical conclusions, in which he not only
reconstructs the details of a military campaign, but also gives a new view
of the history of Egypt and Palestine about 100 B.C.
In 103-101 B.C. a dynastic struggle between two Ptolemaic princes is
fought in Syria and Palestine and involves the Seleucids and the
Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus. The ancient historians Pompeius Trogus,
Justinus and Josephus give only a very sketchy picture of the events. In
the present volume this is fleshed out by papyri and inscriptions: a
correspondence in Greek and demotic of Ptolemaic soldiers on campaign to
their relatives in far-away Pathyris, a funerary epigram in Edfu, a
hieroglyphic inscription for a Ptolemaic general, perhaps even some
material from Qumran. The multilingual documentation asks for a
multidisciplinary approach by papyrologists, demotists, Egyptologists,
semitists and historians. This was the last great work of E. Van 't
Dack, who headed the team, and was responsible for the historical
conclusions, in which he not only reconstructs the details of a military
campaign, but also gives a new view of the history of Egypt and
Palestine about 100 B.C.
fought in Syria and Palestine and involves the Seleucids and the Hasmonean
Alexander Jannaeus. The ancient historians Pompeius Trogus, Justinus and
Josephus give only a very sketchy picture of the events. In the present
volume this is fleshed out by papyri and inscriptions: a correspondence in
Greek and demotic of Ptolemaic soldiers on campaign to their relatives in
far-away Pathyris, a funerary epigram in Edfou, a hieroglyphic inscription
for a Ptolemaic general, perhaps even some material from Qumran. The
multilingual documentation asks for a multidisciplinary approach by
papyrologists, demotists, Egyptologists, semitists and historians. This
was the last great work of E. Van 't Dack, who headed the team, and was
responsible for the historical conclusions, in which he not only
reconstructs the details of a military campaign, but also gives a new view
of the history of Egypt and Palestine about 100 B.C.
In 103-101 B.C. a dynastic struggle between two Ptolemaic princes is
fought in Syria and Palestine and involves the Seleucids and the
Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus. The ancient historians Pompeius Trogus,
Justinus and Josephus give only a very sketchy picture of the events. In
the present volume this is fleshed out by papyri and inscriptions: a
correspondence in Greek and demotic of Ptolemaic soldiers on campaign to
their relatives in far-away Pathyris, a funerary epigram in Edfu, a
hieroglyphic inscription for a Ptolemaic general, perhaps even some
material from Qumran. The multilingual documentation asks for a
multidisciplinary approach by papyrologists, demotists, Egyptologists,
semitists and historians. This was the last great work of E. Van 't
Dack, who headed the team, and was responsible for the historical
conclusions, in which he not only reconstructs the details of a military
campaign, but also gives a new view of the history of Egypt and
Palestine about 100 B.C.
Volume 2
This is the first volume of the long awaited new edition of the Petrie
papyri, which were found in mummy cartonnage in a cemetery on the fringe
of the Fayum and first published in the last decade of the 19th century.
Hundreds of Greek and demotic papyri will be reedited with many
additions to the editio princeps (which did not include the numerous
fragments) and an up-to-date commentary. The present volume contains the
remains of a register of Ptolemaic wills, dated between 238 and 226
B.C., and now housed in London, Dublin, Oxford and Jena. The more than
fifty wills, some of them very fragmentary, are a prime source of
information for Greek law of inheritance (with striking parallels in the
wills of Plato and Aristotle), for the organisation of the Ptolemaic
army (most wills are drawn up for soldiers in order to safeguard their
military possessions), for women's rights (apparently the wife did not
enjoy legal protection and had to be provided for by means of a will),
for personal descriptions in official documents, for slavery and for the
presence of Greeks and Alexandrians in the Egyptian interior in the
third century B.C.
papyri, which were found in mummy cartonnage in a cemetery on the fringe
of the Fayum and first published in the last decade of the 19th century.
Hundreds of Greek and demotic papyri will be reedited with many
additions to the editio princeps (which did not include the numerous
fragments) and an up-to-date commentary. The present volume contains the
remains of a register of Ptolemaic wills, dated between 238 and 226
B.C., and now housed in London, Dublin, Oxford and Jena. The more than
fifty wills, some of them very fragmentary, are a prime source of
information for Greek law of inheritance (with striking parallels in the
wills of Plato and Aristotle), for the organisation of the Ptolemaic
army (most wills are drawn up for soldiers in order to safeguard their
military possessions), for women's rights (apparently the wife did not
enjoy legal protection and had to be provided for by means of a will),
for personal descriptions in official documents, for slavery and for the
presence of Greeks and Alexandrians in the Egyptian interior in the
third century B.C.