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Post by Patrinos on Apr 30, 2009 15:43:00 GMT -5
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Post by Kastorianos on Apr 30, 2009 16:22:19 GMT -5
Very interesting pics...and not that different looking from many modern Greeks.
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Post by todhrimencuri on Apr 30, 2009 18:25:40 GMT -5
They look like their from Egypt, or the near east (like lebanese). These are from the elites, who tended to be mixed (more so than the natives, who were actually often hostile to each other). Ive looked at some papyrii from this area, mostly in Greek, they deal havily with land but since there were 3 laws in Egypt (Roman, above all, Greek, second, and then third native Egyptian) we can tell who was who. A large number of them, however, diverge between laws depending on what their interest was (for instance, in terms of women, they often looked for Egyptian since Egyptian law allowed them to own land, whereas Greek did not). So from this we can tell who was mixed and who wasnt. There are a lot of upper class cases of mixture.
Many of these areas were also mixed with Jews also since Hellenized Jews from Palestine tended to click to Greek zones (they made up 1/4 of Alexandria).
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Post by Patrinos on Jul 31, 2009 7:01:43 GMT -5
Hey...that guy is my cousin... ;D
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Post by Patrinos on Jan 28, 2010 18:16:03 GMT -5
More from the Greco-Egyptian settlement of Fayum: the first must be Greek and the second looks very Egyptian.
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