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OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT DOCUMENTS
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OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT DOCUMENTS
Thisinnovativenewseriesoffersuniqueperspectivesonthepolitical,cultural,
social, and economic history of the ancient world. Exploiting the latest
technological advances in imaging, decipherment, and interpretation, the
volumes cover a wide range of documentary sources, including inscriptions,
papyri,andwoodentablets.
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The Epigraphy of
Ptolemaic Egypt
Edited by
ALAN BOWMAN
and
CHARLES CROWTHER
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Preface
The origin of this volume of studies of the Greek and bilingual epigraphy of
PtolemaicEgypt(332–30)(seeFig.0.1)liesinaconferenceheldinOxford
in April 2016 as part of a project to compile a Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscrip-
tionsfromEgyptbasedintheCentrefortheStudyofAncientDocumentsin
theFacultyofClassics(UniversityofOxford),ledbyProfessorAlanBowman
(as Principal Investigator) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council from 2013–16. It has also been supported by the Leverhulme Trust
and the University of Oxford’s John Fell Fund. The outcome of the main
projectwillbeaCorpusof650numbereditemswhichwillbepublishedboth
onlineandinbookformat.Theaimoftheconferencewastopresentaseries
ofcontextualstudies,bothbymembersoftheprojectteamandbyanumberof
invited scholars, exploring the broader political and cultural connotations
of different aspects of this large aggregate of Greek and Greek-Egyptian epi-
graphicdocumentation.Withoneexception,thechaptersarerevisedversionsof
the papers presented and discussed at the conference. Chapter4, by Willy
Clarysse, was in the course of preparation at the time of the conference as a
separatepublication,anditseemedappropriatetoadditwhentheopportunity
arose. We hope that the collection of studies will prove an enduring and self-
standingcontribution to the study of Ptolemaic epigraphy as well as anindis-
pensablecomplementtothepublicationofthemainCorpus.
ThemembersoftheeditorialteamoftheCorpus,whohavecontributedto
this volume, are Professor Alan Bowman, Dr Charles Crowther, Professor
Simon Hornblower, Professor Rachel Mairs (University of Reading), and Dr
Kyriakos Savvopoulos. Throughout the whole period of the research project
and subsequently we have received invaluable research support from Ms
Margaret Sasanow and Dr Chloe Colchester, for which we are very grateful.
WeareindebtedtothesupportprovidedbythestaffoftheIoannouCentrefor
ResearchinClassicalandByzantineStudiesinorganizingtheconference.We
have also received much valuable support from colleagues and students too
numerous to mention here, with the exception of the late Professor François
Kayser (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc), who very generously made available
to us the photographic archive of the late Étienne Bernand, of which he was
the curator, and Peter Houten, who drafted the map of Ptolemaic Egypt in
Figure0.1.
AlanBowman
CharlesCrowther
UniversityofOxford
August2020
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofTables xv
ListofAbbreviations xvii
ListofContributors xxv
MapofEgyptinthePtolemaicperiod xxvii
1. Introduction:TheEpigraphyofPtolemaicEgypt 1
AlanBowmanandCharlesCrowther
2. ImagingInscriptions:TheKingstonLacyObelisk 9
JaneMasséglia
3. BeyondRosetta:MultilingualInscriptions,theAntiquitiesTrade,
andtheDeciphermentofEgyptianScripts 20
RachelMairs
4. GreekTextsonEgyptianMonuments 35
WillyClarysse
5. TheEpigraphyofthe‘GreekCities’ 59
AlanBowman
6. ReligiousLifeinPtolemaicAlexandriaundertheRoyalAegis:
AnOverviewoftheEpigraphicEvidence 76
KyriakosSavvopoulos
7. FoundationDepositsfromThird-CenturyEgypt 94
DorothyJ.Thompson
8. HellenisticSacredDedications:TheViewfromEgypt 114
SupratikBaralay
9. SoldiersintheEpigraphyofPtolemaicEgypt 127
ChristelleFischer-Bovet
10. InscriptionsandPapyri:TwoIntersectingWorlds 159
WillyClarysse
11. EpigraphicHabitsofPrivateAssociationsinthePtolemaicChora 179
MarioC.D.Paganini
12. TheCorpusofPtolemaicInscriptions:TheMetricalTexts 208
SimonHornblower
13. ThePalaeographyofPtolemaicInscriptionsfromEgypt 226
CharlesCrowther
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viii Contents
Appendix:ListofTextsintheCorpusofPtolemaicInscriptions 269
Bibliography 313
IndexofSources 333
1. IndexofLiteraryPassagesCited 333
2. IndexofInscriptionsCited 334
3. IndexofPapyriandOstrakaCited 344
IndexofPlaces 346
IndexofNames 348
GeneralIndex 351
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List of Figures
0.1. MapofEgyptinthePtolemaicperiod xxvii
DrawnbyP.H.A.Houten
2.1. WilliamJohnBankes(1786–1855)byGeorgeSandars,1812 10
ReproductioncourtesyoftheCreativeCommons
2.2. ThePhilaeObeliskatKingstonLacy,Dorset 10
2.3. GiovanniBattistaBelzoni(1778–1823)byWilliamBrockedon 12
ReproductioncourtesyoftheCreativeCommons
2.4. ScaffoldingaroundthePhilaeObelisk,September2014 16
2.5. The‘Cleopatra’cartoucheinvariousRTIsettings:(a)normal
lighting,(b)rakinglighting,and(c)specularenhancement 17
2.6. 3Dscansoftheobelisk’s(a)mainshaftand(b)base 17
CourtesyofGOMUK
2.7. Possibletracesofletteringintheareaofthepaintedinscriptions 18
3.1. CPI387:DecreeinhonourofKallimachos 26
4.1. CPI403:FuneraryepigramofAphrodisia 36
4.2. FunerarysteleofHathor-ity.Cairo,EgyptianMuseum,inv.22018 37
4.3. CPI223:Dedicationofatopos.MuséeduLouvre,E27113 39
PhotographcourtesyoftheMuséeduLouvre
4.4. FunerarysteleofPeteminis.Abdalla20no.15(SEG421520)
TM105397 40
4.5. DedicationbyTesenouphis.I.Fayoum179.Cairo,Egyptian
Museum,CG1190 41
4.6. DedicationbyPedon,reignofPsammetichosI(664–610) 42
4.7. CPI368:DedicationtothegodHaroerisandthesynnaoitheoi 43
4.8. DedicationtoIsis.SEG411628(TM103461) 43
4.9. DedicationtoOsiris.SEG411629(TM102571) 44
4.10. (a)MummyofArtemidorosinacartonnagemummycase;
(b)close-upoftheinscription.BritishMuseumEA21810 45
©TheTrusteesoftheBritishMuseum
4.11. SarcophagusofDioskorous.MuséeduLouvre,E13044 45
PhotocourtesyofA.M.AubertandRCortopassi
4.12. MummymaskofTitusFlaviusDemetrios.SB14179(TM8709) 46
