Paradeisos of Pammenes

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Koine Greek Πᾰμμένους Πᾰρᾰ́δεισος (Pămménous Părắdeisos): translation of Πᾰμμένους (Pămménous, “of Pammenes”), a genitive of Πᾰμμένης (Pămménēs, “Pammenes”) + transliteration of Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́δεισος (părắdeisos), whence English paradise.

Proper noun

the Paradeisos of Pammenes

1. (ancient history) A ward (ἄμφοδον) of the city of Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt
   • 1996, Christopher J. Tuplin, “The Parks and Gardens of the Achaemenid Empire” (chapter 2, pages 80–131), in Achaemenid Studies (Historia / Einzelschriften; 99), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, ¶ B. Achaemenid Material (pages 88–131), § ii. Written sources (pages 92–131), page 98:

     Few other sources permit us to infer anything about size. The paradeisos of Pammenes gave its name to a whole region (amphodos) of Oxyrhyncus.⁶⁹
     69 Frequently attested, e.g. P.Oxy.249, 648, 693, 1452, 3136, 3141, 3154, 3183, 3283; BGU 2459; SB 7990.13; PSI 708, 732; P.Flor.4; P.Yale 69, 71; P.Turner 38, 42; P.Upps.Frid.6; P.Fouad.69; CPG 2/3 1.71,81.

   • 2011, Jesús Carruesco, “Water, Toponymy, and the Image of the City in Graeco-Roman Egypt” (chapter 3, pages 33–39), in Eva Subías Pascual, Pedro Azara Nicolás, Jesús Carruesco, Igancio Fiz, Rosa Cuesta, editors, The Space of the City in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Image and Reality (Documenta; 22), Tarragona: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, →ISBN, page 39/1:

     In Roman times, the existence at Oxyrhynchus of a district called the Paradeisos of Pammenes and, in other cities, numerous toponyms and references to urban plots, orchards, trees and groves (e.g. the Alsos of Arsinoe) attest to the continuity of this image of the city in Graeco-Roman times, when it connected and merged with a similar perception of Egypt in traditional Greek thought and literature.

Translations

ward of Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt

• Ancient Greek: Πᾰμμένους Πᾰρᾰ́δεισος m (Pămménous Părắdeisos)
• German: Pammenus Paradeisos