Graeco-Roman
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Quesna I: Investigations in the Ptolemaic-Roman Cemetery 2006-2013 (Excavation Memoir) [Paperback]
£100.00ISBN: 9780856982217
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Since 2006, investigations have been carried out in the Quesna necropolis by the team of the EES Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey. Quesna I concerns the first element of work now completed, the investigations in the Ptolemaic-Roman cemetery. T... .... Learn More
JJP 43 (2013) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology Keynote Papers [Hardback]
Jakub Urbanik (Editor); Adam Łajtar (Editor); Tomasz Derda (Editor)
£52.00ISBN: 5550118692
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Journal
Volume: 43
The 27th International Congress of Papyrology, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, gathered more than 300 scholars from the papyrology field in Warsaw. In keynote papers the experts in singular fields of papyrology... .... Learn More
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World, 500 BC - AD 300 [Hardback]
Antonia Sarri (Author)
£75.53ISBN: 9783110426946
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistol... .... Learn More
Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts Documents and Sources [Hardback]
Lincoln H. Blumell (Editor); Thomas A. Wayment (Editor)
£85.99ISBN: 9781602585393
Published by : Baylour University Press
Blumell and Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. Christian Oxyrhynchus provides new and expanded editions of Christ... .... Learn More
Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple [Hardback]
Michael Jones (Editor); Susanna McFadden (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780300169126
Published by : Yale University Press
The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, ... .... Learn More
Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC-Ad 800 [Paperback]
Roger S. Bagnall (Author)
£47.50ISBN: 9780472036226
Published by : University of Michigan Press
When historians study the women of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquity, they are generally dependent on ancient literature written by men. But women themselves did write and dictate. And only in their own private letters can we discover unmediate... .... Learn More
Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture [Hardback]
Molly Sweetnam-Burland (Author)
£72.00ISBN: 9781107040489
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was wide... .... Learn More
Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum [Hardback]
K. Vandorpe (Author); W. Clarysse (Author); H. Verreth (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789042931626
Published by : Peeters Publishers
The Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settl... .... Learn More
Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism [Paperback]
Ian S. Moyer (Author)
£28.99ISBN: 9781107542891
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between... .... Learn More
Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus [Paperback]
William A. Johnson (Author)
£41.99ISBN: 9781442626416
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Over a century of excavations at the Hellenistic and Roman city of Oxyhrhynchus in Egypt have uncovered many hundreds of texts on papyri, providing an invaluable source for many aspects of life as well as reading, writing and book production. T... .... Learn More
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