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9 sie 2023 · The names of Ancient Egypt resonate with meanings as diverse and profound as the civilization itself. From gods and goddesses to pharaohs and queens, each name encapsulates a unique story, a belief, or an aspiration.
375,000 references to Greek, Egyptian, and Latin names were distilled from the full text of some 50,000 Greek papyri and ostraca found in the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri,3 and were added to the Trismegistos database.
This project will create an authoritative collection of Greek personal name evidence from Egypt, unlocking the potential contained in such names for innovative research into every aspect of ancient life in Greco-Roman Egypt.
the Greeks, who remained in power during the Ptolemaic Period (304–30 B.C.E.). Individuals from these cultures are included in this book, as well as the military, social, and religious aspects of their presence on the Nile. Each culture arrived in Egypt seeking its own purpose, eventually losing its grip on the land.
From Τούθμωσις (Touthmosis), the Greek form of Egyptian ḏḥwtj-ms meaning "born of Thoth", itself composed of the name of the Egyptian god Thoth combined with msj "be born". Thutmose was the name of four Egyptian pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Thutmose III who conquered Syria and Nubia in the 15th century BC.
Names and name patterns found in the first edition of this article were taken from the book Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egyptian Family Archive in the Fayum (Fourth to Third Century BC) by George R Hughes and Richard Jasnow with a contribution by James G. Keenan.
14 kwi 2016 · Some of them believed that Egypt had influenced Greece in the distant past; for the historian Herodotus, Greek religion was mostly an Egyptian import. Flash forward to the Hellenistic period (late 4 th – 1 st centuries BC), when, following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Egypt was taken over by a Greco-Macedonian dynasty based in the ...
