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Panopolis, the modern town of Akhmîm in Southern Egypt, was in Graeco-Roman times an important religious and cultural centre. Its gigantic temple was a strongh
Perspectives on Panopolis
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Authors: A. Egberts
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This volume of seventeen scholarly essays on Graeco-Roman Panopolis (modern Akhmim) offers fascinating new insights into how profound religious and cultural cha
Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside
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Pages: 624
Authors: William Bowden
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A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement n
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III
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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and new questions about the poet and his works ‒
Following Osiris
Language: en
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Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.24