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1898-99 Dionysias (Faiyum)

Sponsor: 
Egypt Exploration Fund (EFF): Graeco Roman Branch [1]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
Bernard P. Grenfell [2]
Arthur S. Hunt [3]
Season summary: 

The excavations were sponsored by the Graeco-Roman branch and thus were concerned with recovering papyri from the Graeco-Roman period rather than objects or material from different time periods.

Grenfell and Hunt assumed this was the city mentioned in papyri by the geographic location of the ruins of a stone temple from the Late Ptolemaic period. 

Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Relevant publications: 

Grenfell, Bernard P. and Arthur S. Hunt 1899. Graeco-Roman branch: excavations for papyri in the Fayum; the position of Lake Moeris. Archaeological Report (Egypt Exploration Fund) (1898-1899), 8-15.

Additional archive material: 
London, Lucy Gura Archive, Egypt Exploration Society
Site guide: 
Dionysias (Faiyum) [4]
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[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egypt-exploration-fund-eff-graeco-roman-branch
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/bernard-p-grenfell
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/arthur-s-hunt
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/node/1108