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Roman Egypt

The Kellis Agricultural Account Book
by Roger S. Bagnall
The report from Kellis by the Dakhleh Oasis team documents a collection of wooden tablets found alongside the Isocrates codex. The tablets contain the most extensive and well-preserved set of accounts for an agricultural entity to survive from the 4th century AD. The accounts probably date from the 360s and document the daily life of an agricultural estate over a period of five years. Information on crops, measures, prices and valuation, tenants ...
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The Kellis Isokrates Codex
edited by K. A. Worp and A. Rijksbaron
This volume of the Dakhleh Oasis Project presents a first edition of the texts of three orations by or attributed to Isocrates (Ad Demonicum, Ad Nicolem and the Nicocles) as found in a new 4th century AD codex from Ismant el-Kharab in the Dahkleh Oasis (ancient Kellis). Isocrates himself lived in the 4th century BC; he was an Athenian orator who wrote many famous and influential speeches (although he never delivered them in ...
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Karanis, An Egyptian Town in Roman Times: Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935)
edited by E.K. Gazda, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography by T.G. Wilfong
Karanis, a town in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250 BC, housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture that lasted for hundreds of years. Ultimately abandoned and partly covered by the encroaching desert, Karanis eventually proved to be an extraordinarily rich archaeological site, yielding tens of thousands of artifacts and texts on papyrus that provide a wealth of information about daily life in the ...
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Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
by Steven E. Sidebotham
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today's Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated ...
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Roman Egypt
by Livia Capponi
Livia Capponi offers a concise, introductory survey to Egypt under Roman rule, covering a lot of ground as she reviews the evidence and the issues which have formed the basis for scholarly debate and analysis. She looks at the nature of Roman rule, including tax and administration, at Roman concepts of Egypt, and at society and culture, and finishes with sections on the great city of Alexandria, and on Oxyrhynchus and the treasure-trove of ...
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Multilingual Experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou
For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication, and the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. The first section of the book gives an overview of the documentary sources for this subject, which for ancient history standards are very rich and as yet under-exploited. The second ...
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Antony & Cleopatra
by Patricia Southern
The tragic love affair of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is a staple of popular ancient history, immortalised by Shakespeare and Hollywood and mercilessly parodied in Carry on Cleo. In this dual biography Patricia Southern attempts to rescue both from the stereotypes, portraying their alliance as a mutually advantageous one, and both of them as capable political operators. Southern has a flair for this kind of narrative-history-with-argument, but she ...
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Graeco-Roman Fayum Texts and Archaeology
edited by Sandra Lippert and Maren Schentuleit
During the Graeco-Roman period, the Fayum became one of the most productive agricultural regions of Egypt and was the focus of a systematic settlement and cultivation program. This volume contains the conferences given at the third international symposion for Fayum studies held at Freudenstadt/ Schwarzwald from May 29 to June 1, 2007. Egyptologists, papyrologists and archaeologists from all over the world joined in order to report their ...
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The Red Land: The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert
by Steven Sidebotham, Martin Hense and Hendrijke Nouwens
A useful account of the history of the Eastern Desert by those who have been so actively involved in its exploration in recent years. The exploitation of the mining resouces of the area in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods and the the trading ports along the Red Sea are topics that have been of particular interest, and this concise account of the findings is to be welcomed; the life of the Bedouin living there now sets the ancient settlements into ...
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City of the Sharp-nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
by Peter Parsons
In this accessible and 'anecdotal' work, Peter Parsons, formerly head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, brings to life the City of Oxyrhynchus, a colony of Greek migrants, in the age of the Roman Empire. Drawing on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, one of the most extraordinary bodies of evidence in the world, and rivalling Pompeii in what they can tell us about the Roman city, he elucidates grand themes such as the economic life of the city, but pays ...
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