The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change.(Review)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

By BEZALEL PORTEN et al. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui; Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and Civilizations, vol. 22. Leiden: E. J. BRILL. Pp. x + 621, 11 plates. HFl 402, $259.50.

This work gathers together into one volume 175 translated hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, and Latin documents from the Upper Egyptian fortress cities of Elephantine and Syrene, dating from the late Old Kingdom to the Abbassid period. The project, executed by an international team of specialists, was carried out under the supervision of Bezalel Porten of the ...

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