Abstract
This article examines legal texts in Demotic and in Greek to investigate the siting and construction of pastophoria, Egyptian s.wt. (n ḥ.t-nṯr) ‘places (of the temple)’, in the enclosure of the temple of Hathor in Pathyris in Upper Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. The Pathyrite evidence is compared with documentary and archaeological evidence from other Egyptian sites. In a forthcoming article in this journal, the scope of the study will be extended to consider the ownership and use of pastophoria and their relationship with the temple functionary known as the pastophoros, Egyptian wn(?). In addition to advancing study of the topography of the Pathyrite temple complex and of the Egyptian pastophorion, this article and its sequel explore the kinds of evidence that legal texts provide about ancient property types, their uses, and their social contexts.
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