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'Ptolemy's zoo': animals in Hellenistic Egypt

2015/19/D/HS3/03032

Keywords:

Egypt Ptolemaic Philadelphus animals Alexandria papyri

Descriptors:

  • HS3_1: Early history (ancient, medieval, early modern history), modern and contemporary history (19th - 20th c.)
  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)
  • HS3_10: Papyrology

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Maja Miziur-Moździoch 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: SONATA 10 - announced on 2015-09-15

Amount awarded: 103 290 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-09-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-10-11

Project duration:: 25 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Summary of the project "Ptolemy's zoo: animals in Hellenistic Egypt" realized within the programme Sonata" financed from the Polish National Science Centre (NCN)
    Authors:
    Maja Miziur-Moździoch
    Academic press:
    EOS: COMMENTARII SOCIETATIS PHILOLOGAE POLONORUM (rok: 2017, tom: CIV (2), strony: 359-361), Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne
    Status:
    Published
  2. A note on the unidentified animal in the Marisa (Maresha) tomb frieze
    Authors:
    Maja Miziur-Moździoch
    Academic press:
    EOS: COMMENTARII SOCIETATIS PHILOLOGAE POLONORUM (rok: 2018, tom: CV (2), strony: 331-334), Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne
    Status:
    Published
  3. How a sheep turned into a giraffe. The case of Deuteronomy 14:5
    Authors:
    Maja Miziur-Moździoch
    Academic press:
    Vetus Testamentum (rok: 2020, tom: 70 (4-5), strony: 753-758), Wydawca: Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/15685330-12341410 - link to the publication
  4. Some remarks on Strouthophagoi tribes
    Authors:
    Maja Miziur-Moździoch
    Academic press:
    EOS: COMMENTARII SOCIETATIS PHILOLOGAE POLONORUM (rok: 2018, tom: CV (2), strony: 335-339), Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne
    Status:
    Published
  1. n/a
    Authors:
    Maja Miziur-Moździoch
    Book:
    'Ptolemy's zoo': exotic animals in the third century BC Egypt (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Accepted for publication