DimeData: Online Platform for Editing Roman Period Accounts from the Soknopaios Temple in Dimê (Fayum)

此前的研究将埃及寺庙的衰落归咎于罗马人。然而，目前的观点是，罗马对埃及经济起到了刺激作用。在这种背景下，迪姆的神庙特别适合于探索罗马管理一个省的埃及神庙的经济状况，并测试新的观念。一方面，在希腊和埃及的文件是非常丰富的一般，另一方面，来源阐明特别是寺庙的商业生活，其中一流的帐户已大量幸存下来。寺庙的会计人员用通俗文字制作了这些名单，仅保存较好的1米多长的卷轴就有800件，其中约40件将进行编辑。他们的分析将迫使我们修改(1)埃及地区神庙的内部经济结构，(2)将‘神庙’作为行政和经济中心纳入埃及的罗马行政和财政战略，(3)神职人员作为一个社区及其社会地位，以及(4)迪姆和邻近避难所的宗教实践。在希腊语最终取代德米德语成为行政语言的时期，埃及德语中有相当数量的资料来源，这是再次提出古埃及双语问题的另一个特殊性。该项目的目标是向古代史学者和埃及考古学家提供迪米翁神庙未出版的记述语料库，这是一个编辑文本的在线平台，并将我们对埃及神庙生活的了解和描绘建立在新的基础上。这将使我们能够对这些本土机构面临的罗马监管行动有新的见解，这些机构在托勒密时期之前一直具有很大的影响力。通过研究迪姆神庙的账目卷轴，并将财政制度、行政管理和祭司的经济能力与罗马中央行政当局授予的权力和特权进行比较，将得出关于埃及融入罗马帝国对传统埃及制度的影响的新发现。这项研究建立在丰富的、基本上未发表的语料库上，致力于研究古代经济和古代金融体系的一种新方法。

Previous research has blamed the Romans for the decline of the Egyptian temples. The current view, however, is that Rome played a stimulating role on the Egyptian economy. Against this background the temple in Dimê is particularly suitable to explore the economic situation of an Egyptian temple under the Roman administration of a province and to test the new perception. On the one hand the documentation in Greek and Egyptian is extremely abundant in general, on the other hand the sources elucidating the business life of the temple in particular, among them at first rank the accounts have survived in great numbers. The temple's accountancy produced these lists in demotic script of which just the better preserved scrolls of more than 1 m length sum up to 800 pieces of which some 40 pieces will be edited. Their analysis will force us to revise our picture (1) of the internal economic structure of a regional Egyptian temple, (2) of the integration of the 'temple' as an administrative and economic centre into the Roman administrative and fiscal strategy in Egypt, (3) of the clergy as a community and its social status, and (4) of the religious practice in Dimê and the neighbouring sanctuaries. The considerable number of sources in Egyptian Demotic in a period when Greek finally replaced Demotic as administrative language is another particularity that raises again the issue of bilingualism in Roman Egypt. The project's objective is to make available the unpublished corpus of accounts from the temple in Dimê on an on-line platform for editing texts to scholars of Ancient History and Egyptologists and to put our knowledge and picture of an Egyptian temple's life on a new basis. This will allow us new insights into the Roman regulatory actions facing these indigenous institutions that were highly influential up to the Ptolemaic period. The study of the account scrolls of the temple in Dimê and by this of the financial system, the administration and the priestly economic competences in comparison to the competences and privileges that the Roman central administration granted, will yield new findings concerning the influence of Egypt's integration into the Roman Empire on a traditional Egyptian institution. This research, which is founded on an abundant and largely unpublished corpus, is devoted to a new approach to ancient economy and the ancient financial system.