Blemmyes : new documents and new perspectives : including O.Blem. 1-107 /

Blemmyes : new documents and new perspectives : including O.Blem. 1-107 /

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Imprint:	Le Caire : Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, [2022] ©2022
Description:	202 pages, 8 pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 33 cm.
Language:	English French
Series:	Documents de fouilles de l'Ifao ; 52 Documents de fouilles ; t. 52.
Subject:	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt -- Eastern Desert. Desert people -- Egypt -- Eastern Desert -- Antiquities.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12761919

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Other authors / contributors:	Cuvigny, Hélène, editor. Chaufray, Marie-Pierre, 1980- author. Cooper, Julien Charles, author. Gates-Foster, Jennifer, author.
ISBN:	9782724708530 2724708539
Notes:	Contributions in English and French.
Summary:	"In the Ptolemaic station of Bi'r Samut (3rd cent. B.C.) on the desert-road between Edfu and Berenice, the same African nomads were called Trogodytai in Greek and Blhm.w in Egyptian. In this word we recognise the Blemmyes of Greek and Latin literature and of documents from late antiquity. And yet, three centuries later, these nomads were simply called Barbaroi in the Roman garrisons of the Eastern Desert. From this discovery came the idea to publish, in the same volume, the demotic ostraca from Bi'r Samut that mention Blemmyes, together with a group of Greek orders to distribute grain to Barbarians from the time of Gallienus, found at the Roman praesidium of Xeron Pelagos. The only archaeological remains that can be attributed with certainty to these nomads are vessels and shards of Eastern Desert Ware, a hand built, polished ceramic decorated with incisions. The examples found at Bi'r Samut are published in the volume. The three chapters consecrated to the unpublished documents are preceded by a presentation of the history of the nomad-population of the Eastern Desert of Egypt in the long perspective from the Pharaonic period onwards, and reflexions on the names given by the Greeks and the Romans in turn to these people who occupied the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Nubia." --Page 4 of cover.

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