Corpus of Inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt

该项目将创建一个最新版本的希腊文、双语和三语碑文的语料库，这些碑文来自托勒密埃及（公元前323-30年），大约有400个项目，基于已故的Peter Fraser FBA（1918-2007）收集和注释的材料，Peter Fraser FBA是20世纪埃及希腊化铭文领域的主要权威，以及更广泛的背景。这些版本将包括介绍材料、评论、翻译和数字图像，并将以书籍形式和在线版本提供。弗雷泽在20世纪70年代中期之后收集的材料很少，因此他的手稿需要大量的修改和更新。此外，需要增加自1970年代中期以来出版的大量铭文，并需要提供双语和三语文本埃及部分的翻译版本，以便对这些纪念性文本的原始状态、特征和意义提供独特准确的表现和解释。从公元前323年亚历山大大帝去世后托勒密接管埃及，直到公元前30年克利奥帕特拉和安东尼去世，政府和行政管理几乎完全用希腊语进行，希腊语成为主要语言。无论是在公共领域还是私人领域，石头上的铭文都是希腊文化、纪念和交流的核心，托勒密王朝将这一传统带入了新成立的希腊化君主制。然而，在希腊化的王国中，埃及是独一无二的，因为其本土语言的铭文与政治上占主导地位的希腊交流方式一起幸存下来。该项目将首次提供一个完整的学术版本的语料库，它将取代旧的出版物和其他部分收藏，这些出版物和其他部分收藏是由特定的地方出处组织的，因此不能提供托勒密时期希腊铭文的完整概况。这一点很重要，原因有几个。新的语料库将适当重视石刻公共和私人文献的重要性，在埃及，石刻文献往往被纸莎草文献的优势所掩盖。它将说明这种公开声明和展示的模式是如何在最初对希腊人来说是“外来”的语言文化中变得重要的，不仅在“希腊城市”（亚历山大、托勒密、瑙克拉提斯），而且在埃及本土城镇。弗雷泽在1950年至70年代中期的工作认识到了这些材料的重要性，并为理解和利用这些材料提供了基础。完成它将使人们对托勒密时代的埃及有更深入的了解，并使一个伟大学者的成就最大化。

This project will create a corpus of up-to-date editions of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions on stone from Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE), numbering almost 400 items, based on material collected and annotated by the late Peter Fraser FBA (1918-2007), who was the leading authority of the 20th century in the field of hellenistic epigraphy in Egypt and the wider context. The editions will include introductory material, commentaries, translations and digital images and will be made available both in book form and an on-line version. Fraser collected little material after the mid-1970s and his manuscript therefore needs extensive revision and updating. Furthermore, a significant number of inscriptions published since the mid-1970s need to be added, and editions with translations of the Egyptian sections of bilingual and trilingual texts need to be provided in order to provide a uniquely accurate representation and explanation of the original state, character and meaning of the monumental texts. From the takeover of Egypt by Ptolemy after Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE, until the deaths of Cleopatra and Antony in 30 BCE, government and administration was conducted almost entirely in Greek, which became the predominant language. Both in the public and private spheres, epigraphic inscriptions on stone were central to Greek culture, commemoration and communication, and the Ptolemies brought this tradition with them into the newly formed hellenistic monarchy. Among hellenistic kingdoms, Egypt is unique, however, in that epigraphy in its indigenous language survived alongside the politically dominant Greek mode of communication. The project will make available for the first time a full corpus of scholarly editions, which will replace older publications and other partial collections which are organised by specific local region of provenance and therefore do not offer a full conspectus of the Greek epigraphy of the Ptolemaic period. This is important for several reasons. The new corpus will give proper weight to the importance of public and private documentation on stone, which, in Egypt, has tended to be overshadowed by the preponderance of documents on papyrus. It will illustrate the ways in which this mode of public pronouncement and display became important in what was originally a language culture 'alien' to the Greeks, not merely in 'Greek cities' (Alexandria, Ptolemais, Naukratis) but also in indigenous Egyptian towns. Fraser's work between 1950 and the mid-1970s recognised the importance of this material and provided the basis for understanding and exploiting it. Bringing it to completion will afford a deeper understanding of Ptolemaic Egypt and maximise the achievement of a great scholar.