By John Matthews
Within the early fourth century, a attorney and public determine from the Nile valley urban of Hermopolis made a six-month company comparable trip to Antioch. The everyday info are preserved on papyrus records and provide a awesome checklist of this trip, masking every little thing from distances traveled to day-by-day foodstuff purchases, from medicinal provides to charges paid for services.In this ebook, the classicist and historian John Matthews interprets those vital records and areas them within the wider context of the social background of the Graeco-Roman world. The memoranda with regards to Theophanes’ trip are awarded inside of a old narrative that provides an array of revelations on nutrition, trip, social kin, and different interesting subject matters. This e-book creates an unparalleled account of lifestyle within the years previous Emperor Constantine’s upward push to energy within the jap provinces of the Roman empire.
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H. D. 324,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 31 (1945), p. 113; PLRE 1, p. 970 (Vitalis 1). There is no reason to follow Roberts’s speculation that Theophanes’ journey had something to do with these preparations. It is not even clear that the galleys (polykōpa) need be sea-going warships. 50. Roberts, pp. 105 and 111 with n. ” The name of Flavius Julius Crispus is given as Flavius Valerius Crispus, and that of Valerius Licinianus Licinius as Valerius Constantinus Licinius (sc. in Greek, Likinnios).
The adjacent necropolis at Touna–el–Gebel contained large numbers of the birds, mummified and interred in little coffins made to their shape. 12. Roeder, Hermopolis 1929–1939, p. 166 (V, §6g). My characterization derives from Garth Fowden’s The Egyptian Hermes, pp. 22–31. For Cicero, see Lactantius, Inst. Div. 6. ] Fig. 2. Survey of Hermopolis in the Description de l’Egypte. Charles Coulston Gillispie and Michel Dewichter, Monuments of Egypt: The Napoleonic Edition; the complete archaeological plates of La Description de l’Egypte (Princeton Architectural Press, 1987).
Then I would offer full gratitude to the highest god, if I could see with my own eyes how things are with you, having from the beginning set out with you on the same journey. But now I wish and pray, by any means whatever to hear more clearly news of this and to learn how matters stand with you. I send you many greetings, true brother of my soul, and all who are with you by name. , Besodorus’s own hand May I receive you back in good health, my master and brother, having splendidly accomplished the things we wish for.