Mediterranean encounters: Greeks, Carians and Egyptians in the first millennium BC
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Villing, Alexandra
Date published
2022
Abstract
The first millennium BC was a crucial period in the history of contact between Egypt and Greece. Three case studies examine the processes and people behind and the impact of this contact. They will take us from sixth century BC cosmopolitan Memphis, with its international population including Greeks and Carians, down the Nile to the Egyptian-Greek trading port of Naukratis, and further to Alexandria, on the Mediterranean shore, newly founded at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, discussing the splendid polychrome decoration of a Carian grave marker, grave goods related to the cult of Adonis, and votive statues of cats offered to the goddess Bubastis. Drawing on new insights from recently uncovered or reevaluated archaeological evidence, all three case studies focus on the agents and contexts of cultural contact—that is, people, their actions, and their motivations
Project(s)
Naukratis - Greeks in Egypt
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Leverhulme Trust | F/100 052/E |
The Leon Levy – Shelby White Program for Archaeological Publications | |
Christian Levett and the Mougins Museum of Classical Art | |
Book title
Egypt – Greece – Rome: Cross-cultural Encounters
Editor
Spier, Jeffrey
Cole, Sarah E.
Pagination
15-41
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Place of publication
Los Angeles