E. Yu. Chepel

Memfis v rimskoe vremya kak administrativnyi tsentr i stolitsa noma [Memphis in Roman times — administrative centre and nome capital: a survey of papyrus sources]

The issue of traditions and innovations is crucial for the period Egyptian history when this region was a province of the Roman Empire. The author chooses this issue as a frame for analysis of papyri documents about Memphis — one of the most important urban centres of Egypt since the Old kingdom. Among these papyrus sources there is a group of documents that belongs to an archive deriving from an official department of the Roman administration in Memphis. Investigation of these documents is a key for the history of Memphis in the Roman period.

Keywords:
Memphis, Roman Egypt, archive of Memphite official, dioiketes, Roman administrative system.

Original language — Russian.

DOI: 10.24411/2686-9276-2019-00013.

Referring: Chepel E. Yu. Memphis in Roman times — administrative centre and nome capital: a survey of papyrus sources [in Russian] // Egypt and neighbouring countries 4 (2019): 55–66. DOI: 10.24411/2686-9276-2019-00013.

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