Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206): Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt

by: Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206): Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt
Edited by Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, and Kyriakos Savvopoulos
Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Includes comparative discussion and analysis of Greek and Egyptian epigraphic traditions
Offers understanding of the complex fabric of Greek and indigenous Egyptian religious institutions
Explains the ways in which Egyptian society adapted to Greek institutional and cultural domination

Description
This is the first of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period between Alexander's conquest in 332 BC and the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. The Corpus offers scholarly editions, with translations, full descriptions and supporting commentaries, of more than 650 inscribed documents, of which 206, from Alexandria and the region of the Nile Delta, fall within this first volume. The inscriptions in the Corpus range in scope and significance from major public monuments such as the trilingual Rosetta Stone to private dedicatory plaques and funerary notices. They reflect almost every aspect of public and private life in Hellenistic Egypt: civic, royal and priestly decrees, letters and petitions, royal and private dedications to kings and deities, as well as pilgrimage notices, hymns and epigrams. The inscriptions in the Corpus are drawn from the entire Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, from Alexandria and the Egyptian Delta, through the Fayum, along the Nile Valley, to Upper Egypt, and across the Eastern and Western Deserts. The Corpus supersedes older publications and other partial collections organised by specific region or theme, and offers for the first time a full picture of the Greek and multilingual epigraphic landscape of the Ptolemaic period. It will be an indispensable resource for new and continuing research into the history, society and culture of Ptolemaic Egypt and the wider Hellenistic world.

Table of Contents
List of Plates
List of Inscriptions
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Inscriptions
Alexandria (001-083)
Delta Sites (084-206)
Concordances to Volume 1

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206): Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt

by: Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos

• ISBN-13: 9780198860495 / 978-0-19-886049-5
• ISBN-03: 0198860498 / 0-19-886049-8
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021