The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity
By (author) Paola Buzi By (author) Enrico Giorgi
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(April 2020)
ISBN: 9781789695670
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This book summarises the results of field research-including historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies-conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyum region. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias.
The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyum from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyum region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are also presented. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias. The settlement was a thriving centre from at least the 26th dynasty up until the ninth or tenth centuries CE, although with differing levels of economic prosperity and urban development. Equal weight is given not only to the archaeological and topographical aspects but also to the historical and the religious, whilst never forgetting the relationship between the urban settlement and other villages of the Arsinoite nomos, which is famously a peculiar exception in Egyptian geography.
Preface Introduction Chapter I: Bakchias: Its rediscovery, its cults (P. Buzi) Chapter II: The genesis and urban development of Bakchias (E. Giorgi) Chapter III: The sacred areas of the town (E. Giorgi) Chapter IV: The Northern District (E. Giorgi) Chapter V: The buildings along the canal and the South Kom (E. Giorgi) Chapter VI: Bakchias in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (P. Buzi) Bibliography Captions Plates, Preface ;
Introduction ;
Chapter I: Bakchias: Its rediscovery, its cults (P. BuziE. GiorgiE. GiorgiE. GiorgiE. GiorgiP. Buzi
Paola Buzi is Full Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome and Honorary Professor of the same disciplines at Hamburg University. She is President-Elect of the International Association for Coptic Studies. Since 2002, she has been a member of the Archaeological Mission in Bakchias (Fayyūm ) and co-director of the same mission since 2008.
Enrico Giorgi is Associate Professor in Archaeological Research Methodologies at the University of Bologna. Since 1997, he has been a member of the Archaeological Mission in Bakchias (Fayyūm ) and co-director of the same mission since 2008. He is Director of archaeological projects of his university in Agrigento, Butrint, Burnum, Pompei, Paestum, Suasa and Monte Rinaldo.
- By (author) Paola Buzi
- By (author) Enrico Giorgi
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