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La stèle de Ptolémée VIII Évergète II à Héracléion: Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic region in Egypt

by Christophe Thiers, with contributions by Franck Goddio and Luc Tamborero

This monograph presents a translation, commentary and interpretation of the bilingual monumental Stele of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, which stood in the temple district of Heracleion-Thonis in the north-western Nile Delta of Egypt. The six metre high stele was erected sometime between either 141/140 and 131 or 124 and 116 BC and was discovered during the excavations of the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology. Unfortunately immersion in the sea has damaged the surface of the stele and little of the Greek text can be made out. Nevertheless much of the hieroglyphic portion of the document can be read and interpreted. It is laid out in traditional style complete with a royal protocol and eulogy and contains information about the local affairs of the priests of Heracleion. 140p, 11 col figs and 8 col pls plus separate plan of the stele (OCMA Monograph 4, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 2009)

About the Author

Prof. Christophe Thiers is the Director of the CNRS Franco-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Temples of Karnak. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Francoise Dumas Institute of Egyptology at the University Paul Valéry – Montpellier III. He is an expert on Greco-Roman Egypt and its texts.

Table of Contents

Remerciements
Introduction par Franck Goddio
Caractéristiques techniques de la stèle par Luc Tamborero

1. Présentation de la stèle 1.1. État de la pierre et établissement du texte
1.2. Datation
1.3. Cintre
1.4. Texte hiéroglyphique

2. Traduction 2.1. Cintre
2.2. Protocole royal
2.3. Éloge royal
2.4. Récit historique

3. Commentaire suivi 3.1. Éloge royal
3.2. Récit historique

4. Texte grec

5. Essai d’interprétation
5.1. Contenu du texte
5.2. La prébende du territoire de Tell el-Balamoun (?)
5.3. Un inventaire cadastral
5.4. L’asylie
5.5. Rencontre(s) d’Évergète II avec une délégation égyptienne

6. Conclusion

7. Texte hiéroglyphique et traduction suivis

8. Indices de la stèle

8.1. Particularités graphiques
8.2. Glossaire
8.3. Noms et épithètes royaux
8.4. Divinités et épithètes divines
8.5. Toponymes, ethniques et lieux de culte

9. Bibliographie

10. Planches I-VIII

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