Description
Book Synopsis
The excavations at the Graeco-Roman period Egyptian village of Karanis yielded thousands of artefacts. The Karanis material in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Library Papyrology Collection forms a unique body of information for understanding life in an agricultural village in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.
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'This volume provides an important reminder that good record-keeping is of vital importance to modern excavation to allow future generations of researchers to contribute to the study of archaeology.' (Bethany Simpson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review , May 2015)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Karanis in the Kelsey Museum Archives (Sebastián Encina)
Notes on Three Archival Sources for the Michigan Karanis Excavations: The Record of Objects Books, the Division Albums, and the Peterson Manuscript (T. G. Wilfong)
Silent Movies from the Michigan Expedition to Egypt (T. G. Wilfong)
The Michigan Papyrology Collection and Karanis (Adam P. Hyatt)
Karanis Findspots and Stratigraphy (Thomas Landvatter)
Karanis Revealed: Artifacts from the Exhibition (T. G. Wilfong and Andrew W. S. Ferrara)
A Leather Cuirass Discovered at Karanis, Fayum, Egypt from the Late 3rd and Early 4th Centuries AD (Andrew W. S. Ferrara)
Examination and Conservation Treatment of a Roman Leather Cuirass in the Collection of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Claudia Chemello)
A Skeleton from the Michigan Karanis Excavation (Thomas Landvatter)
The Granary C123 Sealings from Karanis (Jennifer Gates-Foster)
A Rediscovered Agricultural Hinterland of Karanis (R. James Cook)
Excavating the Karanis Archives and Finding Magic in the Kelsey Museum (Andrew T. Wilburn)
The Karanis Housing Project: A New Approach to an Old Excavation (Andrew T. Wilburn, R. James Cook, and Jennifer Gates-Foster)
The Threshold Papyri from Karanis (W. Graham Claytor)
Reconstructing the Contexts of a Greek Musical Papyrus from Karanis (Rebecca A. Sears)
The Sonic Landscape of Karanis: Excavating the Sounds of a Village in Roman Egypt (T. G. Wilfong)
Listening to Karanis: The Mer-Wer Remix Project (John Kannenberg)
Acknowledgments
Indices
