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Death in the Temple of Ptah: The Roman Conquest of Egypt and Conflict at Memphis

Result description

This study aims to trace the possible fate of the family of the High Priest of Ptah after the Roman conquest in 30 BCE. The mysterious death of Imhotep / Padibastet IV created a clear rupture in the succession line. At first, Roman authorities seemed to hesitate to appoint a new high priest of Memphis, for various reasons, and thus waited almost three years to install Pasherienamun II, the first cousin of Imhotep / Padibastet IV, at the temple of Ptah. This occurred simultaneously with the creation of new priestly office: "prophet of the son of Caesar." However, the embalmed body of Imhotep / Padibastet IV remained unburied until 23 BCE, which might indicate previous dysfunctional mutual relations between the primary and the secondary branches of the same family.

Keywords

the Apis bullOctavianPasherienamun IIImhotep / Padibastet IVMemphisRoman EgyptPtolemaic Egypt

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Death in the Temple of Ptah: The Roman Conquest of Egypt and Conflict at Memphis

  • Original language description

    This study aims to trace the possible fate of the family of the High Priest of Ptah after the Roman conquest in 30 BCE. The mysterious death of Imhotep / Padibastet IV created a clear rupture in the succession line. At first, Roman authorities seemed to hesitate to appoint a new high priest of Memphis, for various reasons, and thus waited almost three years to install Pasherienamun II, the first cousin of Imhotep / Padibastet IV, at the temple of Ptah. This occurred simultaneously with the creation of new priestly office: "prophet of the son of Caesar." However, the embalmed body of Imhotep / Padibastet IV remained unburied until 23 BCE, which might indicate previous dysfunctional mutual relations between the primary and the secondary branches of the same family.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    Jx - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

Others

  • Publication year

    2015

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Egyptian History

  • ISSN

    1874-1657

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    8

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    12

  • Pages from-to

    37-48

  • UT code for WoS article

    000361239800002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database