Religious Habits of the Roman Army in the Peripheries of Egypt - the Epigraphic Evidence

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Religious Habits of the Roman Army in the Peripheries of Egypt - the Epigraphic Evidence

Original language description

The early Roman period (30 BCE - 284 CE) was the last era marked by a dynamic development of the native Egyptian religion. Not only in the religious sphere, did the conquest of Egypt by Octavianus Augustus for the most part not bring about a radical break with the past. One of the exceptions was the coming of the Roman army, which played an important role in spreading Roman culture across the whole Mediterranean. The present paper examines how the Roman army entered the sacred landscape of Egypt as seen through the epigraphic evidence left by the soldiers in various peripheral regions of the province of Egypt, where the presence of the army was especially strong. Each of the three regions of interest, namely Alexandria and surroundings, the Eastern Desert and the region of the First Cataract and Roman Lower Nubia, is surveyed for relevant epigraphic evidence and the individual inscriptions are described, analysed and discussed in context. Subsequently, the data acquired from the analysis of the evidence are brought together. The situation in the studied regions is compared, pointing out the clear differences in the manifestation of the Roman soldiers&apos; presence in the sacred landscape of each of them and even individual sites. Overall, the observed approaches of the Roman military servicemen were also diverse, ranging from the accommodation and integration with the native cults to the introduction of new divinities and the appropriation of sacred spaces. Finally, conclusions are drawn how in each of the regions, as well as overall, the Roman army contributed to continuity and facilitated change in the religious sphere in Egypt of the early Roman period.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-07268S" target="_blank" >GA19-07268S: Continuity, Discontinuity and Change. Adaptation Strategies of Individuals and Communities in Egypt at Times of Internal and External Transformations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Continuity, Discontinuity and Change : Perspectives from the New Kingdom to the Roman Era

ISBN

978-80-7671-048-1

Number of pages of the result

57

Pages from-to

491-547

Number of pages of the book

580

Publisher name

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Place of publication

Prague

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