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Preface......................................................................................................................................................
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CHAPTER I. PICTURE OF AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE. FROM PATHYRIS TO GEBELEIN ........................
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‘A spot of great natural strength’. Location and name of the town ........................
The pre-Ptolemaic town ........................................................................................................
Ptolemaic Pathyris, Krokodilopolis and Smn. Topographical issues .....................
The Hellenization process of an Upper Egyptian community..................................
Modern Gebelein, ‘The two mountains’ ..........................................................................
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CHAPTER II. ARCHIVES. TERMINOLOGY, TYPOLOGY AND WRITING MATERIAL ...............................
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The term ‘Archive’ in papyrological jargon, ‘may the word be pardoned’ .........
Archive versus dossier ...........................................................................................................
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Private archives ........................................................................................................................
Ostraka archives of Greco-Roman Egypt ........................................................................
Ostraka and wooden tablets archives from Pathyris ....................................................
Ostraka versus wooden tablets in Pathyris......................................................................
Temple oaths on ostrakon and papyrus ............................................................................
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CHAPTER III. RECONSTRUCTION OF PATHYRIS’ ARCHIVES ................................................................
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Traditional criteria for the reconstruction of archives
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15 Methods for reconstructing ‘disturbed’ archives...........................................................
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‘Museum archaeology’ as a methodology
§16 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................
17 'LVFRYHU\RISDS\ULGXULQJRI¿FLDOH[FDYDWLRQVDW*HEHOHLQ ...................................
18 Discovery of papyri during clandestine excavations at Gebelein ...........................
19 Tracing the acquisition dates of the Pathyris papyri ....................................................
20 How to reconstruct archives through museum archaeology .....................................
21 Conclusions ...............................................................................................................................
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Museum archaeology put to work: the reconstruction of the Dryton archive
§22 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................
23 The ‘old’ Dryton archive .......................................................................................................
24 Extension of the Dryton archive in the traditional way ..............................................
25 Extension (and reduction) of the Dryton archive through museum archaeology ..
26 Ostraka of the Dryton archive .............................................................................................
27 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................
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CHAPTER IV. COMPOSITION OF PATHYRIS’ FAMILY ARCHIVES.
“FAMILY ARCHIVES ARE GOLDMINES” ...................................................................................................
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Who contributes to a family archive? ..............................................................................
After whom to call a family archive? ..............................................................................
What kind of documents is an archive composed of? ................................................
Bilingualism in family archives ..........................................................................................
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CHAPTER V. SURVEY OF PATHYRIS’ ARCHIVES....................................................................................
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§32 Edition and lists of archives .................................................................................................
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Archives from the military camp
§34a Platon-correspondence ..........................................................................................................
34b Pates and Pachrates-correspondence.................................................................................
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Temple archive
§35 Archive of Pathyris’ temple of Hathor .............................................................................
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Family archives
§36 Archive of Dryton, Apollonia and Descendants ...........................................................
37 Erbstreit dossier alias archive of Peteharsemtheus, son of Nechouthes................
38 Archive of Harsiesis, son of Schotes ................................................................................
39 Archive of Herienouphis, son of Pathotes.......................................................................
40 Archive of Horos, son of Nechouthes ..............................................................................
41 Archive of Nechouthes alias Almaphis, son of Pelaias ..............................................
42 Archive of Nechouthes, son of Peteharsemtheus..........................................................
43 Archive of Pakoibis, son of Patous....................................................................................
44 Archive of Pelaias, son of Eunous alias Nechouthes...................................................
45 Archive of Pepous, son of Hones .......................................................................................
46 Archive of Peteharsemtheus, son of Pakoibis ................................................................
47 Archive of Peteharsemtheus, son of Panebchounis......................................................
48 Archive of Peteuris, son of Pates .......................................................................................
49 Peteuris-correspondence .......................................................................................................
50 Archive of Petosiris, son of Harsiesis...............................................................................
51 Archive of Portis alias Gounsis, son of Thotomous.....................................................
52 Archive of Psenenoupis, son of Horos .............................................................................
53 Close family ties (with family tree in Appendix) .........................................................
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CHAPTER VI. MUSEUMS SURVEY ..........................................................................................................
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Bibliographical Abbreviations ........................................................................................................
Index. Texts from Pathyris ................................................................................................................
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Table in Appendix
Family tree in Appendix
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