The Archive of the Theban Choachytes
A Survey of the Demotic and Greek Papyri contained in the Archive
By (author) P.W. Pestman
Paperback (Published)
(January 1993)
ISBN: 9789068314892
Price: $282.00
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The archive of the Theban choachytes contains over 80 texts, Greek and demotic. They are largely private documents that together constitute the papers of a family of choachytes (undertakers). It is known since the beginnings of modern Egyptology and Papyrology as the “Hermias Archive” after the antagonist of the choachytes in a now famous Greek law suit kept in Turin. Although its bilingual information contributed in no uncertain measure to the decipherment of demotic, a large part of this fundamentally demotic archive is still not or not properly published. This Survey reviews for each text, Greek or Demotic, all relevant data in great detail and determines its exact place within the whole of the archive. The second half of the book presents the study of a number of special subjects that emerge from the contentts of the archive, such as the topography of Thebes (city and necropolis), prosopography, mummies and liturgies, but also more general subjects as onomastics, prices and transfer tax (enkyklion), and the diplomatics of the documents.
- By (author) P.W. Pestman
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Demotic and Greek-Demotic Mummy Labels and Other Short Texts Gathered from Many Publications
Volume 9
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Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004
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Some Coins of Artaxerxes and Other Short Texts in the Demotic Script Found on Various Objects Gathered from Many Publications
Volume 5
The Erbstreit Papyri
A Bilingual Dossier from Pathyris of the Second Century BC (Pap. Erbstreit)
Volume 13
Aspects of Demotic Orthography
Acts of an International Colloquium held in Trier, 8 November 2010
Volume 11
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Die demotischen Mumienschilder im British Museum
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