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Antinoopolis: A Hadrianic Foundation in Egypt1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

H. I. Bell
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The city state was the most characteristic expression of the Hellenic way of life; and it is appropriate that the most Philhellenic of Roman emperors should have been distinguished as a founder of cities and an encourager of civic institutions. We are ill informed about the constitution and history of most of his foundations, but concerning one, which was in Egypt, a country whose soil preserves so perfectly the antiquities which it covers, we have a considerable amount of evidence. Antinoopolis is thus of interest not only to the historian of Roman and Byzantine Egypt, but also for the light it may throw on Hadrian's aims and ideals as a founder of cities.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 1940 , pp. 133 - 147
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Copyright © H. I. Bell 1940. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

2 See A. H. M. Jones, Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 307.

3 SB 8012; P. Wurzb. 9; etc.

4 P. Baden 74.

5 P. Lond. 1164 (c), 11–16.

6 P. Lond. 1164 (d), 12.

7 It is probably to be explained by P. Lond. Inv. 2000 β γρς πλινθ θ απο νοτʹ [του?] διωρυχος(A.D. 157); i.e. this block was divided by an east–west canal.

8 P. Lond. Inv. 2000, 6.

9 P. Würzb. 9, 54 f.

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11 P. Lond. Inv. 1893.

12 Archiv f. Pap., 7, 175–182.

13 P. Lond. Inv. 1951, 1957.

14 P. Lond. Inv. 1980; cf. Inv. 1943 (a).

15 P. Lond. Inv. 1896 (Aegyptus, 13, 522 ff.).

16 P. Lond. Inv. 1895 (Aegyptus, 13, 525 ff.).

17 Dicker, Mary E., Archiv f. Pap. 9, 226 fGoogle Scholar.

18 Wilcken, Chrest. 27.

19 P. Oxy. xviii, 2177.

20 P. V. Pistorius, Indices Antinoop., p. 99.

21 Pistorius, o.c. p. 101; E. Kühn, Antinoopolis, 1913, 130.

22 Pistorius, o.c. p. 94, and P. Oxy. vi, 909.

23 JEA 18, 70 ff. = SB 7558.

24 Aegyptus, 13, 516.

25 Pistorius, o.c. p. 88 f.

26 SB 5343.

27 P. Strassb. i, 34.

28 Wilcken, Chrest. 28.

29 Kühn, p. 82; P. Lond. ii, 117, no. 383.

30 P. Lond. Inv. 1905 (Aegyptus, 13, 518 ff.).

31 An unpublished papyrus of A.D. 347 in the possession of the Egypt Exploration Society.

32 SB 5343.

33 Ptol. iv, 5, 61.

34 See P. Würzb. 8 intr.; P. land. 140.

35 P. Oslo, iii, 92.

36 P. Lond. Inv. No. 2288.

37 P. Lond. 977 (iii, 231).

38 JEA 17, 1.