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Book SynopsisRoman 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 p
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Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Abbreviations IntroductionChristina 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 Lajtar: 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: Walter Scheidel: Age and Health 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: Maria Cannata: Art without Artistsa A Textual Window on the Funerary Artists of Roman Egypt 37: Barbara E. Borg: Portraits in Roman Egypt 38: Sandra Sandri: Terracottas 39: Jennifer Gates-Foster: Pottery 40: Beatrix Gessler-Löhr: Mummies and Mummification in Roman Egypt: Decline or Heydaya 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
