Dime in the Fayyum - a temple between tradition and multiculturality in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

该项目旨在更好地了解迪姆神庙的邪教、神学、历史和年代学。这是在两个综合体中实现的：(1)文献文本的编辑及其通过考虑已经出版的来源进行的历史分析；(2)关于埃及宗教历史和更广泛的埃及框架的每日仪式的编辑和原则及其背景。该项目的主题相互依存的建筑群将提供重要的信息，这些信息将与Soknopaios保护区的建筑特征的解释和年代确定有关。借此，将从不同的角度研究埃及神庙作为精神和经济中心的地位以及埃及在外国统治时期的身份状况。因此，该项目通过编辑几乎未出版的文本资料来进行基础研究，这些资料将提供给埃及学、古代史和希腊造纸学。由于压倒性的丰富材料与有限的人员预算相反，事实证明，专注于特别重要的资料是必要的。这也意味着文本必须只有一个初步和粗略的分析。一方面，新发掘的介形纸，然后是一组特定的纸莎草纸(信件，合同，所谓的shat-合同和收据)，主要是到目前为止仍然没有公布的纸莎草纸从格里菲斯研究所，牛津大学，这已被知道40年，但其中只有一小部分已提供给学术界。格里菲斯纸莎草纸，如今在牛津，来自一角硬币，可以追溯到托勒密时代。通过他们对希腊化时期鲜为人知的村庄及其寺庙发展的洞察，在此基础上，可能会更好地了解该遗址在罗马时期的历史。这些文本生动地描绘了牧师的日常生活，Soknopaios-牧师的职责和问题，他们如何与托勒密国家的机构、他们在其他地区的同事或职业不再可识别的人通信。另一方面，焦点将独家放在日常仪式上。在目前的形式下，它既非常难以破译，也对我们对埃及寺庙总体礼仪议程的看法至关重要。对于Soknopaios的日常仪式是最感兴趣的不仅是人间研究，而且是埃及学一般，因为这里我们有最后的手稿为这种仪式，问题的节录，组成和古埃及仪式文本语料库的传统是照亮的，这一角的连接到其他中心的概念化突出，最后，因为咒语语料库扩大。

The project aims at a better understanding of cult, theology, history and chronology of the temple at Dimê. This is achieved in two complexes: (1) the edition of documentary texts and their historical analysis by considering the already published sources; (2) the editio princeps of the Daily Ritual in the Dime-temple and its contextualization with regards to the history of Egyptian religion and to a broader Egyptian framework. The thematically interdependent complexes of the project will provide significant information which will be relevant to the interpretation and dating of the architectural features of the Soknopaios-sanctuary. By this the position of an Egyptian temple as spiritual and economic centre as well as the conditions of Egyptian identity during periods of foreign rule will be studied from different directions. Thus the project conducts basic research by editing almost unpublished textual sources, which will be made available for Egyptology, Ancient History, and Greek Papyrology.Because of the overwhelming wealth of material in opposition to the limited budget for personnel a concentration on particularly salient sources has turned out to be necessary. This also implies that the texts must be presented with just a preliminary and sketchy analysis. On the one hand, the newly excavated ostraca and then a specific group of papyri (letters, contracts, so-called sh'at-contracts and receipts) of the chiefly up to now still unpublished papyri from the Griffith Institute, Oxford, which have been known for 40 years, but of which just the minor part has been made available to the scholarly community. The Griffith-papyri, nowadays in Oxford, come from Dime and date to the Ptolemaic period. Through them insights into the lesser known development of the villages and its temple during Hellenism shall be gained, and on this basis the site's history during the Roman period might be better understood. The texts paint a vivid picture of the priestly everyday-life in Dime, the duties and problems of the Soknopaios-priests, how they corresponded with the institutions of the Ptolemaic state, with their colleagues in other regions or persons whose profession is not identifiable anymore. On the other hand, the focus will exclusively lie on the Daily Ritual. In its present form it is both highly difficult to decipher and most crucial for our view on the liturgical agenda in Egyptian temples in general. The daily ritual for Soknopaios is of utmost interest not just to demotic studies, but also to Egyptology in general, because here we have the last manuscripts for this kind of ceremonies, questions of redaction, composition and traditions of the corpus of ancient Egyptian ritual texts are illuminated, by this Dime's connection to other centres of the conceptualization is highlighted and, finally, because the corpus of spells is enlarged.