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Author:
Hussein, Youssri Ezat.
Title:
El-Minia Region in the Graeco-Roman Period :
Remainder of title :
Historical and Archaeological Study /
Supervisors:
Ali Omar Abd El-Allah, Mohamed Ali Hamed.
Place of publication : Minia :
Name of publisher:
Youssri Ezat Hussein,
Date of publication:
2007 .
Description:
Master of Science
Abstract:
There is no doubt that el-Minia region is considered to be one of the most
important regions in Egypt. It played an important role in the Egyptian
history, passing by its different epochs beginning from the Pharaonic period
in which it comprised five Egyptian nomes among the twenty-two assigned to
Upper Egypt, while the Graeco-Roman period has not yet well been covered
so far. The importance of this thesis is to shed the light on one of the most
famous Egyptian regions either historically or monumentally. This thesis will
be divided into five chapters dealing with a historical background about elMinia region, Hermopolis Magna and its famous necropolis Tuna el-Gebel,
Antinoopolis, Oxyrhynchos and finally the less important sites such as Akoris
(Tehna el-Gebel) and El-Kom el-Ahmar Sawaris -south of Sharuna. During
the Graeco-Roman period, some certain capitals in el-Minia, or metropolises
as the Greek called, witnessed a magnificent care taken by the Ptolemies and
later on by the Roman Emperors. Beginning from the south, Hermopolis
Magna was the most famous for being the capital of the fifteenth Upper
Egyptian nome. Tuna el-Gebel .the necropolis of Hermopolis Magna- had a
great number of tombs taking the shape of either temples or funerary houses.
Antinoopolis .Shaikh Ibada- on the east bank of the Nile is the only Roman
polis constructed in Egypt by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 130 A.D. in
favor of his drowned friend Antinoos. Oxyrhynchos, or modern el-Behnasa,
was the capital of the nineteenth Upper Egyptian nome. It contained, during
the Graeco-Roman period, a great number of monuments such as the Greek
Theater and the Roman Triumphal Arch.