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The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are also presented. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias. The settlement was a thriving centre from at least the 26th dynasty up until the ninth or tenth centuries CE, although with differing levels of economic prosperity and urban development. Equal weight is given not only to the archaeological and topographical aspects but also to the historical and the religious, whilst never forgetting the relationship between the urban settlement and other villages of the Arsinoite nomos, which is famously a peculiar exception in Egyptian geography.

Table of Contents
Preface ;
Introduction ;
Chapter I: Bakchias: Its rediscovery, its cults (P. Buzi) ;
Chapter II: The genesis and urban development of Bakchias (E. Giorgi) ;
Chapter III: The sacred areas of the town (E. Giorgi) ;
Chapter IV: The Northern District (E. Giorgi) ;
Chapter V: The buildings along the canal and the South Kom (E. Giorgi) ;
Chapter VI: Bakchias in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (P. Buzi) ;
Bibliography ;
Captions ;
Plates

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      Publisher Archaeopress
      Published 16 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9781789695670
      978-1789695670
      ISBN-10 1789695678
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are also presented. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias. The settlement was a thriving centre from at least the 26th dynasty up until the ninth or tenth centuries CE, although with differing levels of economic prosperity and urban development. Equal weight is given not only to the archaeological and topographical aspects but also to the historical and the religious, whilst never forgetting the relationship between the urban settlement and other villages of the Arsinoite nomos, which is famously a peculiar exception in Egyptian geography.

      Table of Contents
      Preface ;
      Introduction ;
      Chapter I: Bakchias: Its rediscovery, its cults (P. Buzi) ;
      Chapter II: The genesis and urban development of Bakchias (E. Giorgi) ;
      Chapter III: The sacred areas of the town (E. Giorgi) ;
      Chapter IV: The Northern District (E. Giorgi) ;
      Chapter V: The buildings along the canal and the South Kom (E. Giorgi) ;
      Chapter VI: Bakchias in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (P. Buzi) ;
      Bibliography ;
      Captions ;
      Plates

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