The Oxford handbook of Roman Egypt /
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Language: English
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Call Number: DT61 .O887 2012
Table of Contents:
- •List of Figures •List of Tables •List of Contributors •List of Abbreviations and Conventions •Introduction •Part I. Land and State •1. Aegypto Capta: Augustus and the Annexation of Egypt •2. Between Water and Sand: Agriculture and Husbandry •3. Manufacture, Trade, and the Economy •4. Government, Taxation, and Law •5. The Roman Army in Egypt •6. The Imperial Cult in Egypt •Part II. City, Town, and Chora •7. Alexandria •8. Settlement and Population •9. Archaeology in the Delta •10. The Archaeology of the Fayum •11. The Theban Region under the Roman Empire •12. Classical Architecture •13. City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel •14. The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924-1935): Images from the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives •Part III. People •15. Status and Citizenship •16. Identity •17. The Jews in Roman Egypt: Trials and Rebellions •18. Families, Households, and Children •19. Age and Health •Part IV. Religion •20. Religious Practice and Piety •21. Coping with a Difficult Life: Magic, Healing, and Sacred Knowledge •22. Egyptian Temples •23. Funerary Religion: The Final Phase of an Egyptian Tradition •24. Oracles •25. Isis, Osiris, and Serapis •26. Imported Cults •27. Egyptian Cult: Evidence from Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies •28. Christianity •Part V. Texts and Language •29. Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism •30. Papyri in the Archaeological Record •31. Latin in Egypt •32. Greek Language, Education, and Literary Culture •33. Hieratic and Demotic Literature •34. Egyptian Hieroglyphs •35. Coptic •Part VI. Images and Objects •36. Funerary Artists: The Textual Evidence •37. Portraits •38. Terracottas •39. Pottery •40. Mummies and Mummification •41. Nilotica and the Image of Egypt •Part VII. Borders, Trade, and Tourism •42. Travel and Pilgrimage •43. The Western Oases •44. The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports •45. Between Egypt and Meroitic Nubia: The Southern Frontier Region •Index