News from texts and archaeology : acts of the 7th International Fayoum Symposium, 29 October - 3 November 2018 in Cairo and the Fayoum / edited by Cornelia E. Römer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Römer, Cornelia, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

International Fayum Symposion (7th : 2018 : Cairo, Egypt), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

History.

Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D--Congresses.

Egypt.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Fayyūm (Province)--Congresses.

Fayyūm (Egypt : Province)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Fayyūm (Egypt : Province).

Antiquities.

Egypt--Fayyūm (Province).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts, plans ; 25 cm + 3 folded maps

Other Title:

Acts of the 7th International Fayoum Symposium, 29 October - 3 November 2018 in Cairo and the Fayoum

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.

Summary:

News from Texts and Archaeology, edited by Cornelia E. Römer, contains twelve of the important papers given at the 7th Fayoum Symposium in Cairo in October/November 2018, most of them dealing with archaeology, some with texts. They mirror the focus of this 7th Symposium, which for the first time took place in Egypt, and which highlighted the archaeological work recently carried out in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum by Egyptian and international missions. Papers include a presentation of the first Hellenistic gymnasium archaeologically attested in Egypt and excavated by the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, and a catalogue of the Hellenistic and Roman sculptures which come from a secure provenance in the oasis. One paper traces the history of the water-wheel in Egypt, an invention that changed the landscape radically, and shows the sophistication of water supply in the villages in general. Together with the papers on Greek and Demotic texts found in the Fayoum, they all draw a picture of the multi-cultural society of the Egyptian countryside in the Graeco-Roman period. Of special interest are the three maps attached to the volume as an extra, which show the changing levels of the lake in the north of the oasis through the pharaonic and Ptolemaic/Roman periods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783447113960

3447113960

OCLC:

1184015501

Publisher Number:

9783447113960