Settlements of the Ptolemies: City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic WorldPeeters Publishers, 2006 - 249 pagina's New settlement, relocation and migration have been part of human life right from the beginning. It is an essential ingredient of socio-economic life in antiquity and in the modern world. This book tells the history of new cities and settlement under the Ptolemies (332 to 30 BC). The Ptolemies ruled Egypt, numerous Aegean Islands, large stretches of the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts for three centuries. They up-rooted, transferred, replanted and attracted people to new and old settlements throughout their realm. Departing from the traditional emphasis on Egypt only, or outside Egypt only, and bridging the scholarly divides between Egyptologists, Classicists, Archaeologists and Geographers, this study offers an innovative framework for understanding the structure of and processes underlying new Ptolemaic settlement. By assessing topics such as bilingual toponyms, spatial settlement networks and the rural impact of new foundations, population size, urban differentiation, politics and programmes that facilitated new settllement, the author draws the first comprehensive and multivariant picture of the basis for Ptolemaic power: land, people and cities. |
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF PTOLEMAIC FOUNDATIONS | 3 |
DYNASTIC TOPONYMS | 9 |
DYNASTIC TOPONYMS | 15 |
LOADED TOPONYMS | 35 |
PTOLEMAIC FOUNDATIONS AS REGIONAL SYSTEMS | 41 |
PTOLEMAIC FOUNDATIONS AS URBAN SYSTEMS | 50 |
WHAT IS URBAN AND DOES IT MATTER? | 85 |
URBAN STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN | 105 |
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Aegean Alexander Alexandria ancient archaeological Arsinoe Asia Minor attested Atum Berenike Cenival Cilicia Clarysse cleruchic Coele-Syria Cohen Cyprus Cyrenaica Demotic toponyms density Dionysias dynastic foundations dynastic name dynastic settlements dynastic toponyms early Hellenistic early Ptolemaic edited Egyptian toponym Euergetis father Atum Fayum Fayumic settlements founded Greek toponyms Hellenistic period Herakleides Hermiou in Upper Hippodamian insulae Keos king Kleopatra kome Krokodilon Polis land large number Laronde Lower Egypt Lower Nubia maic majesty Marquaille 2001 Memphis ments meris Methana Nome P.dem.Lille P.Hawara P3 sj P3 wj P3wj papyri personal name Philadelpheia Philadelphos Philopator Philotera population Psoi Ptol Ptole Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic empire Ptolemaic foundations Ptolemaic possessions Ptolemaic rule Ptolemaic settlement Ptolemais Hermiou Ptolemy I Soter Rakote Red Sea Red Sea coast refoundation regions rural Seleukid settle settlement pattern settlers stela Strabo Suppl survey temple Themistos Theoi tlement toponyms town planning Upper Egypt urban centres village Zauzich