Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions: Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt - Volume...

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Alan K. Bowman (University of Oxford) Charles V. Crowther (University of Oxford)

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions

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Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt - Volume 2, The Fayum and the...

Alan K. Bowman (University of Oxford), Charles V. Crowther (University of Oxford), Simon Hornblower (University of Oxford) , Rachel Mairs (University of Reading)

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Oxford University Press
12 February 2026

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Egyptian archaeology & Egyptology

Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents

This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. This volume contains 221 numbered items (some covering multiple short texts) from the Fayum and Middle and Upper Egypt (including the Thebaid). It presents up-to-date scholarly revisions of the texts with translations, full descriptions, and commentaries, drawing on material originally collected by the late P. M. Fraser. The inscriptions from the Fayum illustrate the development of towns and villages in a region which was particularly re-shaped by Greek immigrants, while the texts from Upper Egypt and the Thebaid reflect the persistence of indigenous Egyptian traditions and their interaction with the impact of Greek culture. The inscriptions range from copies of major priestly and royal decrees, civic administrative documents, and asylum petitions involving Egyptian and Greek temples and cults, to dedications to gods, monarchs, and private individuals, funerary texts, pilgrimage notices, and verse inscriptions including re-editions and reassessments of the Isis hymns from Narmouthis and the Herodes funerary epigrams from Edfu together with their Hieroglyphic counterparts. The Corpus supersedes older publications and other partial collections organised by specific region or theme, and offers for the first time a full picture of the Greek and multilingual epigraphic landscape of the Ptolemaic period. It will be an indispensable resource for new and continuing research into the history, society and culture of Ptolemaic Egypt and the wider Hellenistic world.

Edited by: Alan K. Bowman (University of Oxford), Charles V. Crowther (University of Oxford), Simon Hornblower (University of Oxford), Rachel Mairs (University of Reading), Kyriakos Savvopoulos (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 200mm, Spine: 50mm
Weight: 1.850kg
ISBN: 9780198868309
ISBN 10: 0198868308
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Pages: 816
Publication Date: 12 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures List of Inscriptions List of Abbreviations Introduction The Inscriptions The Fayum (207-299) Middle and Upper Egypt (300-409) Concordances to Volume 2 Bibliography

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and the former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Charles Crowther is Associate Professor of Greek Epigraphy and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. Simon Hornblower was a Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at All Souls College, Oxford, until his retirement in 2016. Rachel Mairs is Professor of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Reading. Kyriakos Savvopoulos is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.