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dc.title	Honorary Decree by the Priests of Amun-Ra for the Strategos Kallimachos after a Famine
dc.contributor.author	Rossini Alessandro
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2022/1/decreto-onorario-dei-sacerdoti-di-amon-ra-per-lo-s/
dc.description.abstract	In 39 BC, at the end of a famine, the priests of Amun-Ra in Thebes issued a decree with which they declared the strategos Kallimachos a saviour and honoured him as a father, a bright star and a good daimon. They credited him with having fought their calamities by benefitting from some special epiphany of the god. The synod reshaped the treatment of royal evergetism with concepts from the Egyptian tradition (maat, the defeat of Seth). This new edition, with new hypotheses, of one of the most interesting inscriptions of the late Ptolemaic history is accompanied by a commentary that attempts to highlight its conceptual and lexical stratification.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 6 \| Issue 1 \| June 2022
dc.issued	2022-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2022-03-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-02-08
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2022/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Amun‑Ra
dc.subject	Famine
dc.subject	Hellenistic Egypt
dc.subject	Honorary decree
dc.subject	Kallimachos
dc.subject	Karnak
dc.subject	Priests
dc.subject	Ptolemaic Kingdom
dc.subject	Strategos
dc.subject	Thebes

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Honorary Decree by the Priests of Amun-Ra for the Strategos Kallimachos after a Famine

Alessandro Rossini Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia

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In 39 BC, at the end of a famine, the priests of Amun-Ra in Thebes issued a decree with which they declared the strategos Kallimachos a saviour and honoured him as a father, a bright star and a good daimon. They credited him with having fought their calamities by benefitting from some special epiphany of the god. The synod reshaped the treatment of royal evergetism with concepts from the Egyptian tradition (maat, the defeat of Seth). This new edition, with new hypotheses, of one of the most interesting inscriptions of the late Ptolemaic history is accompanied by a commentary that attempts to highlight its conceptual and lexical stratification.

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June 20, 2022

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March 1, 2022

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Feb. 8, 2022

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Keywords: Thebes • Kallimachos • Hellenistic Egypt • Honorary decree • Famine • Strategos • Priests • Amun‑Ra • Ptolemaic Kingdom • Karnak

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