The Fayoum Survey Project: The Themistou Meris: Volume A: The Archaeological and Papyrological Survey (Collectanea Hellenistica)

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The Themistou Meris was the north-western administrative district of the Oasis Fayoum in the Graeco-Roman Period, home of Greek speaking settlers and indigenous Egyptians, who lived side by side in villages, many of them newly founded by the first Ptolemaic Kings in the 3rd century BC. The book is the result of an archaeological survey, and small excavations carried out between 2000 and 2016 in that part of the Fayoum; it offers descriptions of archaeological remains, many of them now under threat from land reclamation, gives information about the history and exact location of single sites, and values the excavations, which were undertaken there in the beginning of the 20th century, often with the sole aim of finding papyri, while archaeological features were neglected. The book seeks to combine the written and the archaeological evidence, offering new proposals for identifying ancient names with ancient sites, and gives a panorama of the multicultural society of the ancient Fayoum. Cover Title TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE THE THEMISTOU MERIS. ITS BORDERS, LANDSCAPE AND VILLAGES ITSA = LYSIMACHIS? ABGIG = ? ABOU EL-NOUR = ARSINOE ON THE DYKE / ON THE LOCK1 VILLAGES ON THE UPPER COURSE OF THE WADI NAZLAH NAZLAH1 = ? THE “WILKINSON WALL” IN THE WADI NAZLAH, BELOW THE CEMETERY OF QASR EL-GABALI KOM EL-ARKA = ? TELL EL-KINISSA = ? KOM ALIOUN1 = HERMOPOLIS OR THEOXENIS? KOM HAMOULI = KOM KUFRI, SITE OF THE MONASTERY OF THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL1 A SITE NOW LOST KHARÂBAT SHA’LÂN1 = HARÁB-T-EL YAHOOD (“THE RUINS OF THE JEWS”) = POLYDEUKEIA (OR SENTREMPAIS)? BATN HARIT = THEADELPHEIA1 QASR EL-BANÂT = EUHEMERIA1 THE “RUINS” NORTH-EAST OF PHILOTERIS = KANOPIAS (?) MEDINET WATFA = PHILOTERIS1 XΑΛΚΩΡΥΧΙΑ, THE COPPER MINES, IN THE AREA OF DIONYSIAS QASR QAROUN = DIONYSIAS1 MEDINET QOUTA = HA, LORD OF THE WEST = ? THE VILLAGES ON THE PLATEAU BETWEEN MEDINET EL-FAYOUM AND ITS FRINGES THE VILLAGES ON THE NORTHERN FRINGE OF THE CENTRAL FAYOUM PLATEAU; FROM WEST TO EAST ANCIENT VILLAGES ALONG THE SHORE OF LAKE QAROUN IN THE THEMISTOU MERIS, FROM EAST TO WEST EZBET ABD EL-QÂDIR IBRAHIM1 = EZBET EL-KHARABA2 = EZBET QUWAYDA3 = ? THE MONASTERY OF ST. MACARIUS OF ALEXANDRIA IN THE WADI RAYAN Outside any of the maps THE GEOMORPHOLOGY AND GEO-ARCHAEOLOGY OF PHILOTERIS/WATFA CANALS, WELLS AND BASINS: EXCAVATIONS IN PHILOTERIS/WATFA IN 2012 AND 2014 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICES