I templi del Fayyum in epoca tolemaico-romana. Tra fonti scritte e contesti archeologici: per una classificazione degli edifici sacri nell Egitto tolemaico e romano

During the Ptolemaic period, Egyptian temples were divided into three ranks: first, second and third class. There was no trace of this classification of sacred buildings in the papyri of the Roman period when only the most important temples were classified by the epithet logima hiera. This work aims to understand the rules according to which Egyptian sacred buildings were classified and how these first, second and third-class temples were planned and arranged.

To do this, an integrated analysis of different kinds of sources was carried out: all the Graeco-Roman papyri and the inscriptions, which contain rank epithets, were examined and different archaeological data about the temples of the Fayyum region were investigated. Based on these sources, it was possible to put forward different hypotheses on the administration and architectural aspects of these sacred buildings.

Table of Contents

Index

Premise

Methodological introduction

Part I: Written sources. Classification of temples in papyrus and epigraphic documents

Chapter 1: Πρῶτα, Δεύτερα καὶ Ἐλάσσονα ἱερά

Chapter 2: Λόγιμα ἱερά

Chapter 3: Registration

Part II: Archaeological contexts. The temples of Fayyum

Chapter 4: The temples of the meris of Herakleides

Chapter 5: The temples of the meris of Polemon

Chapter 6: The temples of the meris of Themistos

Part III: Reconstruction of the historical-administrative, architectural and cultural context of the Fayyum temples

Chapter 7: Reconstruction of the historical and administrative context

Chapter 8: Temple architecture in the Fayyum

Conclusions

Bibliography

Concordance Tables