B008otodkc Ebok by Riggs, Christina -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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

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