They include mines, quarries, and road infrastructure (forts and accommodations for transport animals) that supported these mineral extraction activities. Sites throughout the region range from pre-historic to Islamic and modern, but this study focuses only on those from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
عرض المزيدWith contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the liberation of Egypt from Persian rule by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and ending in AD 642, when Arab rule started in the Nile country.
عرض المزيدA. E. Hanson, The Greek Doctor in Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt 125 ... either adjacent to the stone quarries or the Roman-period fortlets lining the route between Koptos and Berenike. In the
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عرض المزيدThe contributors to this book share contemporary research on houses and s in both Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to reshape the ways we think about ancient people's lived experiences of family, community, and society. s in Context places the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt in dialogue with research on dwelling, …
عرض المزيدAbout this book. It is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detailed examination and in the interverring years a great deal of new papyrological and epigraphic material has come to light. It was my original intention to write a study of the office in this period with, by way of introduction, a ...
عرض المزيدThis book studies Egyptian ideas about death and the afterlife during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Mark Smith analyses Egyptian attitudes toward death, looks at the various means by which the Egyptians attempted to ensure a smooth transition from existence in this world to that in the next, and examines how they envisaged life in …
عرض المزيدAncient Egypt - Macedonian, Ptolemaic, 332-30 BCE: In the autumn of 332 bce Alexander the Great invaded Egypt with his mixed army of Macedonians and Greeks and found the Egyptians ready to throw off the …
عرض المزيدThe on-going survey of the Graeco-Roman remains in the Egyptian Eastern Desert constantly reveals previously unknown sites and settlements. Most can be shown to be related to either quarries ...
عرض المزيدArchaeological faience samples belonging to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods representing various color hues were extensively studied using multiple spectroscopic techniques to explore the color palette of the Egyptian artist in this period and highlight the most significant features of their ways of coloring and fabrications.
عرض المزيدAt Antinoopolis (Egypt) many quarries, mostly roman, where numbered. Most of the quarries are clustered into large extractions basins. Quarries are underground on …
عرض المزيدIntroduction. Over the course of three centuries, two successive conquests profoundly altered Egyptian society. The introduction of a new ethnic group into the country resulting from the Macedonian conquest in 332 seems not to have brought about major changes.
عرض المزيدfaces. Dating of ancient quarries is difficult, howe-ver the evidence does not come only from the pot-tery but also a large number of Greek and Demotic graffiti were identified in Zāwiyat al-Sul ţān, which provide a terminus post quem in the Ptolemaic period. Normally in those quarries, a block was de-fined at the quarry face by cutting ...
عرض المزيدThe Roman quarries at Antinoopolis (Egypt): development and techniques . × Close Log In. Log in with ... only in the second half of the 12th century by order of the famous Salah ed- during the Ptolemaic …
عرض المزيدLate Period (c. 713–332 B.C.E.) The kings of Egypt of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty came from Kush, a culture that had combined Nubian and Egyptian elements to create something unique. The chief religious site in Kush, the mountain of Gebel Barkal, sported temples of Amun-Ra and Hathor and royal inscriptions, such as on the victory …
عرض المزيدSummary. After the cultural height and military might of the New Kingdom, the fractured Third Intermediate Period led to a loss of control over areas that had been …
عرض المزيدThe Antinoopolis quarries - Egypt THE LIFE OF THE "QUARRIER" AT THE TIME OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN TO DIOCLEZIAN THE IMPERIAL QUARRIES ALL …
عرض المزيدHerodotus (2.124), of course, reports a similar image of slave labor and pyramid building. So it is perhaps surprising to see in the preceding chapter (8.1 introduction) that slavery in Ptolemaic Egypt was a negligible phenomenon and that such slaves as there were were mostly engaged in domestic service in Greek and hellenized …
عرض المزيدThere were also, however, temples to Egyptian gods and traditional pharaonic monuments relocated from other sites, although the extent of the latter practice in the Ptolemaic Period is very difficult to ascertain …
عرض المزيدQuarries in Ancient Egypt. The two main stones of the lower Nile valley are sandstone, from Sudan as far north as the Edfu/Gebelein region, and limestone, the classic Egyptian valley stone from the Theban area to …
عرض المزيدThis small and unusually shaped fort, identified in ostraca found in the fortress as Berkou (Βɛρκου), lay along a track leading from ancient Kaine (Qena) to the …
عرض المزيدThe Roman Empire heavily relied on stone quarries in the Eastern Desert of Egypt to provide building materials for its massive …
عرض المزيدIntroduction . Ancient quarries around Akoris covering the area of Zāwiyat al-Sul ān in Middle Egypt, which belong to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, were investigated …
عرض المزيدthe roman quarries at antinoopolis (egypt): development and techniques prof. geol. massimo coli the research team was constituted by: m. coli, g. pini & m. baldi, dep. earth sc., and g. rosati, papirologycal institute "g. vitelli" the antinoopolis quarries - egypt egypt 6ky of history • egiptyan • macedones • tolomei • romans • bizantini • omayyadi • abbasidi …
عرض المزيدEdfu city is located between Luxor and Aswan in the southern area of Egypt. The city, which is situated on the west bank of the Nile, is world famous for its temple, which was built during the Ptolemaic …
عرض المزيد128 Andrew Monson collect a general poll tax in Egypt called the syntaxis.3 Tcherikover and Evans subsequently disputed Wallace's claim.4 heir view was key to undermining what later derided as the "illusory half-truth" of Ptolemaic-Roman con- tinuity: "Whatever may be true about the still-debated Ptolemaic syntaxis, it is simply a ...
عرض المزيدIt is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detailed examination and in the interverring years a great deal of new papyrological and epigraphic material h ... Epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Thomas, J. David (John David). 647506409. Contents: pt. 1. The Ptolemaic epistrategos. pt. 2. The ...
عرض المزيدTradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule, 2010, 415-435 Women and Gender in Roman Egypt The Impact of Roman Rule Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens "Cleopatra, riding at anchor behind the combatants, could not endure the long and anxious waiting until a decision could be reached, but true to her nature as a woman …
عرض المزيدIt was long taken for granted that monetization in Ptolemaic Egypt was rather moderate. Thus Dominic Rathbone suggested that "under the Ptolemies it appears that monetization barely percolated through to the native population" (1989, 165). And two influential Italian papyrologists observed that in loan transactions, reckoning in kind was …
عرض المزيدThe Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BCE proved to be a further stimulus to trade between the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds (Alpers, 2014). Ptolemaic interest in the region "Eastern Desert" was created to deal with increased and more frequent exploitation of the geological wealth of the area.
عرض المزيدThe Ptolemaic kings had lived in Egypt; the Roman emperors governed from Rome, and their prefects took over the position formerly held in the scheme of government by the Ptolemaic kings. To the Egyptians, therefore, the prefect and not the emperor, who resided in far-off Rome, was the royal personage.
عرض المزيدWhile the four groups of quarries described above are all interpreted as Pharaonic (from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period), due to the use of stone pounders, …
عرض المزيدThe rich lands of Egypt became the property of Rome after the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE, which spelled the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty that had ruled Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. After the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, the Roman Republic was left in turmoil. Fearing for her life and …
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عرض المزيدA. E. Hanson, The Greek Doctor in Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt 127. The high level of doctors' literacy 17 no doubt helps to explain the extensive. medical materials, both literary and ...
عرض المزيدJean-Pierre Brun, Thomas Faucher, Bérangère Redon and Steven Sidebotham (dir.) The Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Greco-Roman Period: Archaeological Reports Collège de France Ptolemaic Gold: the Exploitation of Gold in the Eastern Desert Thomas Faucher DOI: 10.4000/books.cdf.5241 Publisher: Collège de France Place of publication: …
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