Corpus of Inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt

该项目将根据已故的彼得·弗雷泽·法巴(1918-2007年)收集和注释的材料，创建一个最新版本的希腊语、双语和三种语言的托勒密埃及(公元前323-30年)石刻铭文语料库，数量近400项，他是20世纪埃及希腊化金石学领域的领先权威。这些版本将包括介绍性材料、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年代中期以后收集的材料很少，因此他的手稿需要广泛的修改和更新。此外，需要增加自1970年代中期以来出版的大量铭文，并提供双语和三语文本的埃及部分的翻译版本，以便对纪念性文本的原始状态、性质和意义提供独特的准确表述和解释。从公元前323年亚历山大大帝去世后托勒密接管埃及，到公元前30年克利奥帕特拉和安东尼去世，政府和行政几乎完全用希腊语进行，希腊语成为主要语言。在公共和私人领域，石刻铭文是希腊文化、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，在希腊化王国中，埃及是独一无二的，因为当地语言的金石文字与政治上占主导地位的希腊交流方式一起幸存下来。该项目将首次提供完整的学术版本语料库，取代按特定出处地区组织的旧出版物和其他部分收藏，因此不能提供托勒密时期希腊金石学的完整概述。这一点很重要，有几个原因。新的语料库将适当重视关于石头的公共和私人文献的重要性，在埃及，这一点往往被纸莎草类文献的优势所掩盖。它将说明这种公开发表和展示的方式如何在最初对希腊人“陌生”的语言文化中变得重要，不仅是在“希腊城市”(亚历山大、托勒迈斯、诺克拉提斯)，而且在埃及本土城镇也是如此。弗雷泽在1950年至20世纪70年代中期的工作认识到了这种材料的重要性，并为理解和利用它提供了基础。完成这项研究将有助于更深入地了解托勒密时代的埃及，并最大限度地提高一位伟大学者的成就。

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.