Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Yanne Broux

Greek Personal Names in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780198947011
• ISBN-10: 0198947011
• Artikelnr.: 73852028

Autorenporträt

Adrienn Almásy-Martin is currently a project curator at the British Museum and the lead researcher for the Egyptian phase of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, University of Oxford. She studied Egyptology and Classical Greek at ELTE, Budapest; she has a PhD in Egyptology at EPHE, Paris. Her main areas of research are in Demotic and Greek documentary and Demotic funerary texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods with a special interest in onomastic studies and language interaction. Yanne Broux is a senior research fellow at Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org) at the department of ancient history of KU Leuven. She studied Ancient History and Assyriology at KU Leuven and has a PhD in History at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on onomastics and identification in the ancient world, while occasionally becoming side-tracked by subjects such as land management in Roman Egypt or the students (and their names) of the Old University of Leuven. She coordinates TM People, the onomastic-prosopographic section of Trismegistos, and is responsible for the upkeep of its online environment.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Yanne Broux: Greek Names in Egypt: An Overview Based on TM People
* 2: Willy Clarysse and Dorothy J. Thompson: New Rulers, New Names:
Greek Names of Egypt
* 3: Adrienn Almásy-Martin: Demotic Rendering of Greek Names: A Study
Based on LGPN Data from Lower Egypt and the Fayum
* 4: Rachel Mairs: The Adoption of Greek Names by Idumaeans in
Ptolemaic Egypt as Evidence for Acculturation (CPI 1 202)
* 5: Sylvie Honigman: Naming Practices in the Jewish Communities of
Egypt
* 6: Nico Dogaer: Hybrid Names: Onomastics, Power and Identity in a
Cross-Cultural Context
* 7: Maren Schentuleit: Egyptian Cross-gender Names in Graeco-Roman
Dime and Beyond
* 8: Roger S. Bagnall: Onomastics and Classical Culture in Egypt's
Western Oases
* 9: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer: Greek and Other Names in Coptic