Memphis under the Ptolemies

by: Thompson, D.J.

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 The city of Memphis on the Nile River, which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great, became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. The author examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in her analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures

The second city
Life in Memphis
Ethnic minorities
Ptolemies and temples
The undertakers
Apis and other cults
Between two worlds: the Sarapieion
Roman Memphis: an epilogue
Appendices. Memphite professions additional to those recorded in the Zenon archive
The undertakers' archive
A property settlement in 197 B.C
Apis bulls of the Ptolemaic period
The tax of Memphis Harbor

Subjects:
Civilization
Egypt Memphis (Extinct city)
Egyptische godsdienst
Égypte Jusqu'à 640
Geschichte 305 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr
Memphis (Egypte) civilisation
Memphis (Extinct city) Civilization
Memphis (Extinct city) History
Memphis (Ville ancienne) Civilisation
Memphis (ville ancienne) Civilisation
Ptolemaeën
Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B. C
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C

xvii, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Memphis under the Ptolemies

by: Thompson, D.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780691035932 / 978-0-691-03593-2
• ISBN-03: 0691035938 / 0-691-03593-8
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1988

Price: 79,00 EURO

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