Ancient priests list revealed
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This week, Italian and Egyptian excavators under the direction of Mario Capasso, from Università del Salento, were busy brushing the sand off a large collection of 150 roman ostraca engraved with demotic text. Each ostracon is inscribed with the name of a priest who served in the Soknopaios Nesos Temple in Fayum.
The newly discovered ostraca were originally kept in a storeroom situated in a courtyard in front of the temple.
Further studies on the newly discovered ostraca will reveal more of the site’s history and religious aspects. Soknopaiou Nesos is a very important site for the understanding of Greco-Roman society in Egypt because of its excellent state of preservation and the amount of papyri and other inscribed material found at the site.
Civilization at the site reached its peak during the first and second century AD.
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