La memoire des sables : la vie en Egypte sous la domination romaine /
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"Originally published : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983".
Translation of : Life in Egypt under Roman rule. :
222 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
2200371608
Roman Egypt : a history /
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"As Ruler of the Two Lands, Egypt's pharaoh wore the double pschent crown: the red crown of Lower Egypt, in the north, surrounding the white crown of Upper Egypt, in the south. Personified in the ruler, this union remained a central ideal throughout Egyptian history. The unity of Upper and Lower Egypt, also symbolized in the knot tied between papyrus and reed, was long seen as key to Egypt's success. (Fig. 1.1.1) In practice, however, the country was diverse in many ways, with an ongoing struggle between the central ideologies of unity and uniformity and the realities on the ground. Egypt was a self-consciously distinctive culture that also constantly received and absorbed immigrants from many countries into its society"--
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xxxiv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781108844901