OHB ROMAN EGYPT OHBK C

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-957145-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 750 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1557 g

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space.

This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions.

Zielgruppe

For scholars and students interested in the history of Roman Egypt, ancient history, classics, religious studies, classical archaeology, and the history of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riggs

Riggs, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Figures

- List of Contributors

- Abbreviations

- Introduction, Christina Riggs

- Part 1: Land and State

- 1: Friederike Herklotz: Aegypto capta: Augustus and the Annexation of Egypt

- 2: Katherine Blouin: Between Water and Sand: Agriculture and Husbandry

- 3: Matt Gibbs: Manufacture, Trade, and the Economy

- 4: Andrea Jördens: Government, Taxation, and Law

- 5: Rudolf Haensch: The Roman Army in Egypt

- 6: Stefan Pfeiffer: The Imperial Cult in Egypt

- Part 2: City, Town, and Chora

- 7: Marjorie S. Venit: Alexandria

- 8: Laurens E. Tacoma: Settlement and Population

- 9: Penelope Wilson: Archaeology in the Delta

- 10: Paola Davoli: The Archaeology of the Fayum

- 11: Adam ?ajtar: The Theban Region under the Roman Empire

- 12: Donald M. Bailey: Classical Architecture in Roman Egypt

- 13: Katja Lembke: City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel

- 14: T. G. Wilfong: The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924-1935): Images from the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives

- Part 3: People

- 15: Andrea Jördens: Status and Citizenship

- 16: Katelijn Vandorpe: Identity

- 17: Andrew Harker: The Jews in Roman Egypt: Trials and Rebellions

- 18: Myrto Malouta: Families, Households, and Children in Roman Egypt

- 19: Myrto Malouta: Age and Health, Walter Scheidel

- Part 4: Religion

- 20: David Frankfurter: Religious Practice and Piety

- 21: Jacco Dieleman: Coping with a Difficult Life: Magic, Healing, and Sacred Knowledge in Roman Egypt

- 22: Martina Minas-Nerpel: Egyptian Temples of the Roman Period

- 23: Martin Andreas Stadler: Funerary Religion in Roman Egypt: The Final Phase of an Egyptian Tradition

- 24: Gaëlle Tallet: Oracles in Roman Egypt

- 25: Martin Bommas: Isis, Osiris, and Serapis in the Roman Period

- 26: Gaëlle Tallet and Christiane Zivie-Coche: Imported Cults in Roman Egypt,

- 27: Martin Andreas Stadler: Egyptian Cult: The Evidence from the Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies

- 28: Malcolm Choat: Christianity

- Part 5: Texts and Language

- 29: Mark Depauw: Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism

- 30: Arthur Verhoogt: Papyri in the Archaeological Record

- 31: T. V. Evans: Latin in Egypt

- 32: Amin Benaissa: Greek Language, Education, and Literary Culture

- 33: Friedhelm Hoffmann: Hieratic and Demotic Literature

- 34: David Klotz: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Roman Period

- 35: Malcolm Choat: Coptic

- Part 6: Images and Objects

- 36: 36. Art without Artistsa A Textual Window on the Funerary Artists of Roman Egypt, Maria Cannata

- 37: 37. Portraits in Roman Egypt, Barbara E. Borg

- 38: 38. Terracottas, Sandra Sandri

- 39: 39. Pottery, Jennifer Gates-Foster

- 40: 40. Mummies and Mummification in Roman Egypt: Decline or Heydaya, Beatrix Gessler -Löhr

- 41: Molly Swetnam-Burland: Nilotica and the Image of Egypt

- Part 7: Borders, Trade, and Tourism

- 42: Ian C. Rutherford: Travel and Pilgrimage in Roman Egypt

- 43: Olaf E. Kaper: The Western Oases

- 44: Jennifer Gates-Foster: The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports

- 45: László Török: Between Egypt and Meroitic Nubia: The Southern Frontier Region

Über Autor(innen)

Riggs, Christina
Christina Riggs is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, having previously worked in museums in Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Author of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (Oxford 2005), Riggs studied at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard Univeristy, before receiving her doctorate from Oxford University.