With „Gottesdiener und Kamelz\u00fcchter“ \n(Servants of God and Camel Breeder), Benjamin Sippel has now published \nhis dissertation submitted to the University of Erfurt in the \nHarrassowitz publishing house. It deals with the everyday and social \nlife of the Sobek priests in the Fayum of the imperial period and is at \nthe same time volume 144 of the series „Philippika – \nAltertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Octavian conquered Egypt (30 B.C.), \nseveral large temples that cultivated the cult of the crocodile god \nSobek were enthroned in the villages on the edge of the Fayum. Rich \narchaeological, epigraphic and papyrological evidence has been handed \ndown from this region for the following three centuries, illustrating \nthe daily life of the priesthood between ritual acts, temple \nadministration and family life under Roman rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benjamin Sippel is the first to paint a picture of the relations of the Sobek priests of Fayum among themselves, with their village communities and with state officials. The focus is on the villages of Bakchias, Narmuthis, Soknopaiu Nesos, Tebtynis and Theadelphia. Four thematic areas form the core of the study: (1) the peculiarities of naming among priestly families, (2) the efforts of the temple colleges to attract a Hellenistically educated audience, (3) the secular earning opportunities for priests and (4) the sources of conflict in the temple environment. On the one hand, Sippel succeeds in deconstructing the stereotype of Egyptian priests as an ‚indigenous elite‘. On the other hand, the study closes a research gap by shedding light on the situation of the Egyptian Sobek cults in the Fayum under Roman rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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