‘Persian‘ mercenaries with Egyptian traditions and Hellenizing intentions. On native soldiers in Ptolemaic Thebaid KU Leuven
The southern part of Egypt, known as the Thebaid, ran in Ptolemaic times from the Hermopolite or Lycopolite nome upstream to Elephantine at the southern border. This vast region with Thebes (Luxor and Karnak) and Edfu as its main centers was Hellenized at a later stage than the rest of the country. One of the Thebaid towns that produced numerous family archives on papyrus is Pathyris, located some 30 km south of Thebes. These archives belonged ...