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By Carl F. Petry
The Cambridge background of Egypt bargains the 1st complete English-language remedy of Egyptian historical past via 13 centuries, from the Arab conquest to the current day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural heritage of the worlds oldest kingdom, summarizing the debates and offering perception into present controversies. quantity 1 addresses the interval from the Arab invasion in 640 to the Ottoman conquest in 1517. quantity 2 lines Egypts glossy historical past from the Ottoman conquest to the tip of the twentieth-century.
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61 Nero's official sponsorship of the Egyptian elite is recorded at Aswan, Coptos, Dendera, Karanis, Kom Ombo, Tehneh (Akoris) and in the Dakhleh Oasis. With the death of Nero and the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in AD 68, local authority resided in the hands of the first Alexandrian-born prefect, Tiberius Julius Alexander, descended from a Hellenized Jewish family related to the theologian Philo. Securely in office during the brief reigns of Galba (68-69), Otho (69) and Vitellius (69), it was this prefect who formally proclaimed Vespasian emperor in Alexandria on July 1, 69.
From the sixth century to the present,103 the Coptic calendar has dated not from the birth of Christ, but from the "Era of the Martyrs," calculated retrospectively from Diocletian's accession in 284. 105 After a generation, the fragile Tetrarchy rapidly succumbed to personal rivalries in both West and East. In Italy, Maxentius had ousted Severus II as Augustus in 307, before his own defeat by "Caesar" Constantine at the celebrated battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. Maximin Daia (310-313), who had been Eastern Caesar from 305 to 310, contested the office of Augustus with Licinius (308-24), a military associate of the deceased Galerius.
LX-LXI. Cf. Hunt and Edgar, Select Papyri 11, 7 6 - 7 9 ; Jones, History of Rome, 197—98, §86; and L. 5, 2908. E. Koberlein, Caligula und die agyptischen Kulte (Meisenham am Glan, 1962); M. Malaise, Les conditions de penetration et de diffusion des cultes egyptiens en Italie, Etudes preliminaires aux religions orientales dans I'Empire romain 22 (Leiden, 1972), 397; Kakosy, "Probleme der Religion," 2910. See Hunt and Edgar, Select Papyri 11, 7 8 - 8 9 ; Jones, History of Rome, 223—26. 59 As patron of Egyptian monuments, Tiberius is well represented at Armant, Aswan, Athribis, Coptos, Debod, Dendera, Diospolis Parva (Hu), Edfu, Karnak, Kom Ombo (Ombos), Luxor, Philae and Shenhur.