Graeco-Roman

ISBN: 9780714150703
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
The Graeco-Roman mummy portraits remain one of the British Musuem's popular and intimate collections. This compact book presents glorious colour photos of some of the best, alongside commentary and a more general introduction to the techniques ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521887892
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is the first book length study of an unusual collection of ancient texts, the Acta Alexandrinorum . Remarkably similar in form, these texts contain the stories of Greek Alexandrian nobles, who travel to Rome to petition the Emperor on issu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774160943
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
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 po... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906137069
Published by : Golden House Publications
This publication collects together for the first time all known demotic tombs stelae from the necropolis of Dandara, originally excavated by Flinders Petrie. The stelae can be dated to the early Roman period and are all provided with a translat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405113892
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
There is no shortage of books on Cleopatra, who has captured the imagination since Classical times, but Sally-Ann Ashton takes a rather different approach from the usual accounts. Eschewing the use of the Roman literary tradition she attempts t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405113908
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
There is no shortage of books on Cleopatra, who has captured the imagination since Classical times, but Sally-Ann Ashton takes a rather different approach from the usual accounts. Eschewing the use of the Roman literary tradition she attempts t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004170896
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The proceedings of a 2004 conference dedicated to Ptolemy Philadelphus (ruler of Egypt 282-246 BC), which justifiably argue that his reign has been underepresented and overly harshly judged in the secondary literature - there is, for example, n... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110195231
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
This volume contains an edition of 13 hitherto unpublished papyrus documents in Greek from Ptolemaic Egypt. The texts were written in the last three centuries BC and probably originate from Middle Egypt. Many appear to have been recovered from ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783447057820
Published by : Harrassowitz Verlag
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 in... .... Learn More