Editorial for Rosetta Journal issue 15.
Articles
This paper attempts to reconstruct the internal arrangement and functions of the domestic pylon in the light of Greek papyri uncovered from Egypt. It first deals with representations of domestic pylons in the Pharaonic period to visualise the structure. It then considers domestic entranceways attested in Greek papyri and finally addresses the architectural layout and use of the domestic pylon. In 1973 Pierre Chantraine addressed the origin of the Greek term pylon. In 1983 Geneviève Husson published her Oikia where she alphabetically collected the vocabulary of domestic architecture of Egypt, including the pylon, attested in papyri from the Ptolemaic to the Byzantine period. In 2001 Richard Alston mentioned the domestic pylon in passing in his considerations of social life and ritual activities in Roman Egypt. None of these scholars has dealt in depth with the architectural layout and use of the domestic pylon.
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The association by Aristophanes in two lines of the Knights of some fortification works by Kleon, and the subsequent comments of the scholiast, generated a topographical debate on the location of this wall. The problem was confronted by opposing the archaeological evidence to the literary record, not by combining them in a broader analysis. The aim of this paper is to explore all the evidence on Athenian fortifications at the time Kleon was politically active. Through a careful analysis of all the city defences of the period and the references in Aristophanes and other contemporary sources, two different questions will be addressed: first, is Aristophanes really referring to the construction of a specific wall? And, secondly, if this first hypothesis is accepted, where was it located?
Book Reviews
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Archaeological Reports
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