Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, Vol 5) (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, Vol 5)

Goudriaan, K. Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt. 1988 This study takes as its starting point a complaint made by the late Claire Préaux with regard to Ptolemaic Egypt, that one does not know how to tell Greeks and Egyptians asunder. The author tries to find an answer to this question by making use of the concept of ethnicity developed in modern anthropology. He also deals with the problem whether or not the Ptolemaic administration took ethnicity into account. DMAHA 5 (1988), 185 p. - 32.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050630227 ETHNICITY IN PTOLEMAIC EGYPT 4 Copyright 5 PREFACE 6 CONTENT 10 1 INTRODUCTION 12 1.1 The Problem 12 1.2 Ethnicity Theory 19 1.3 Limitation to Hellenes and Egyptians 25 2 ANALYSIS OF IBE DOCUMENTS: INDIVIDUALS 33 2.1 Texts from the Zenon Archive 49 2.2 The Surety Contracts from Ghorân 51 2.3 The Serapeum Texts 53 2.4 Documents from the Pathyrite Nome 69 2.5 Kerkeosiris 81 2.6 The Remaining Texts on Individuals 99 2.7 Summary on Individuals 101 3 EGYPTIANS AND GREEKS: THE GROUPS 107 4 CONCLUSION 127 Supplementary Note: the Machimoi 132 APPENDIX: THE DOCUMENTS 137 Select Bibliography 169 Index of Sources 172 Index of Personal Names 180 Index of Subjects 185 By Koen Goudriaan. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 158-160.