Violence in Roman Egypt : a study in legal interpretation / by Bryen, Ari Z.

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Violence in Roman Egypt : a study in legal interpretation / by Bryen, Ari Z.

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The family in Roman Egypt : a comparative approach to intergenerational solidarity and conflict / by Huebner, Sabine R., 1976-

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Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt : arenas for ritual activity / by Abdelwahed, Youssri Ezzat Hussein

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The beautiful burial in Roman Egypt : art, identity, and funerary religion / by Riggs, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Illustrations; Colour Plates; Abbreviations; Note on Names and Transliteration; Map of Egypt in the Roman Period; 1 Introduction: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion; 2 Osiris, Hathor, and the Gendered Dead; 3 Portraying the Dead; 4 Art and Archaism in Western Thebes; 5 Conclusions: The 'Beautiful Burial' in Roman Egypt; Appendix: List of Objects; Bibliography; Register of Museums; General Index.…”
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Soldier and society in Roman Egypt : a social history / by Alston, Richard, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- SOLDIER AND SOCIETY IN ROMAN EGYPT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE ARMY AND THE PROVINCE -- 3 RECRUITMENT AND VETERAN SETTLEMENT -- 4 THE LEGAL STATUS OF SOLDIERS AND VETERANS -- 5 THE ARMY IN ACTION -- INTRODUCTION -- EXTERNAL WARS -- INTERNAL REVOLTS -- THE ARMY AS LABOUR FORCE -- POLICING -- THE DISTRICT CENTURIONS -- EVERYDAY LIFE -- CONCLUSIONS -- 6 THE ARMY AND THE ECONOMY -- INTRODUCTION -- PAY -- ECONOMIC STATUS -- CHANGES IN ECONOMIC STATUS -- SUPPLY SYSTEM -- ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE ARMY -- CONCLUSIONS -- 7 KARANIS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE VILLAGE -- VETERANS -- VETERANS' FAMILIES: CASE STUDIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- 8 DIOCLETIAN AND AFTER -- 9 CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1 Military units -- LEGIONS -- ALAE -- COHORTS -- NUMERI -- APPENDIX 2 The archaeology of the army -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.…”
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Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt Analysis, Atlas, Commentary. by Paprocki, Maciej

Table of Contents: “…This book as an atlas: maps of desert trails of Roman Egypt -- 1.4. Sources on ancient traffic along desert trails of Egypt -- 2 Road networks of Roman Egypt -- 2.2. …”
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Land Transport in Roman Egypt : a Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. by Adams, Colin

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At empire's edge : exploring Rome's Egyptian frontier by Jackson, Robert B., 1961-

Subjects: “…Romans Egypt.…”
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At empire's edge : exploring Rome's Egyptian frontier by Jackson, Robert B., 1961-

Subjects: “…Romans Egypt.…”
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Tradition and transformation : Egypt under Roman rule : proceedings of the international conference, Hildesheim, Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, 3-6 July 2008

Table of Contents: “…Tradition and innovation in the burial practices in Roman Egypt /…”
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Sex and society in Greco-Roman Egypt / by Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Fragments for a sexual history of Grµco-Roman Egypt -- 2. The social body -- 3. The sensual body -- 4. …”
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Gymnastics of the mind : Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt / by Cribiore, Raffaella

“…Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt…”
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Materia magica : the archaeology of magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain / by Wilburn, Andrew, 1974-

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Materia magica : the archaeology of magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain / by Wilburn, Andrew, 1974-

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Babylon of Egypt : the archaeology of old Cairo and the origins of the city by Sheehan, Peter

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Shenoute of Atripe and the uses of poverty : rural patronage, religious conflict, and monasticism in late antique Egypt by López, Ariel G., 1977-

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Isis on the Nile : Egyptian gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt : proceedings of the IVth International Conference of Isis Studies, Liège, November 27-29, 2008 : Michel Malaise in honorem /

Table of Contents: “…Referencing Isis in tombs in Graeco-Roman Egypt :…”
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...ement Grec. 574) and their Linguistic, Religious, and Socio-Cultural Context in Late Roman Egypt /... by Love, Edward O. D.

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Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Bagnall, Roger S.

Table of Contents: “…Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna -- The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East -- Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt -- Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?…”
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Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Bagnall, Roger S.

Table of Contents: “…Informal writing in a public place: the graffiti of Smyrna -- The ubiquity of documents in the Hellenistic East -- Documenting slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- Greek and Coptic in late antique Egypt -- Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East -- Writing on ostraca: a culture of potsherds?…”
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Aseneth of Egypt The Composition of a Jewish Narrative. by Ahearne-Kroll, Patricia D.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Reconstructed Texts of Aseneth and Their Limitations: The Analysis of Standhartinger and Kraemer -- The Reconstructed Texts of Aseneth and Their Limitations: The Texts of Burchard and Fink -- The Fabula of Aseneth -- Aseneth and the Landscape of Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources Index -- Greek Words Index -- Subject Index -- Modern Authors Index…”
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Bringing in the sheaves : economy and metaphor in the Roman world /! Brent D. Shaw. by Shaw, Brent D.

Table of Contents: “…Harvesting contracts from Roman Egypt and Italy -- Appendix 2.: The Maktar harvester inscription : text and commentary -- Appendix 3. …”
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Rome and the distant East : trade routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China by McLaughlin, Raoul

Table of Contents: “…Ancient evidence for Eastern contacts -- Roman Egypt and the sea routes to India -- Rome and the Arabian trade routes -- Trade routes through Asia and the Silk Road connection -- Diplomatic contacts with the distant East -- The economic impact on the Roman Empire -- Appendix A. …”
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Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity. by Luijendijk, AnneMarie

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late AntiquityChapter 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt; Chapter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and "Secular" Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; Chapter 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt; Chapter 13 "I Do Not Wish to Be Rich": the 'Barbarian' Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes; Chapter 14 "Only Do Not Be of Two Minds": Doubt in Christian Lot Divination; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources.…”
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First urban churches. 1, Methodological foundations

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Assessing the Potential of Archaeological Discoveries For The Interpretation of New Testament Texts -- The City in Roman Egypt -- Epigraphy and the Study of Polis and Ekklēsia in the Greco-Roman World -- Gaia, Polis, and Ekklēsia at the Miletus Market Gate -- Coinage and Colonial Identity -- The Polis and the Poor -- Methodological Considerations in Using Epigraphic Evidence to Determine the Socioeconomic Context of the Early Christians -- Urban Portraits of the "Barbarians" on the Fringes of the Roman Empire -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Texts -- Index of Modern Authors.…”
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The chemical choir by Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.

Table of Contents: “…China: the golden rod to immortality -- India: the way of tantra and mercury -- Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness -- The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers -- Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world -- The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath -- Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century -- Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- A child of earler times: the twentieth century.…”
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Migration and mobility in the early Roman Empire

Table of Contents: “…Prowse -- Revisiting urban graveyard theory : migrant flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens / Saskia Hin -- Migration in Roman Egypt : problems and possibilities / Colin Adams -- Migrant women in p.oxy. and the port cities of Roman Egypt : tracing women's travel behaviour in papyrological sources / Lien Foubert -- Human mobility in the Roman Near East : patterns and motives / Andrea Zerbini -- Moving epigrams : migration and mobility in the Greek East / Laurens E. …”
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Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life

Table of Contents: “…Caballos -- The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt / Claytor, W. Graham -- Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? …”
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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City. by Parkins, Helen

Table of Contents: “…; 2 The Old Assyrian merchants; 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy; 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods; 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited; 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC; 7 Land transport in Roman Italy; 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world; 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt; 10 Trading gods in northern Italy; 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles; Index.…”
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Mediterranean families in antiquity : households, extended families, and domestic space

Table of Contents: “…Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman EgyptThe Mediterranean Identity of Egypt; The Climate and the House; Evidence in the Papyri; The Sons of Psemonches: Families in the City of the Childbirth Goddess; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt; Introduction; Theoretical Background: Households and Houses; Methodology; Discussion; Conclusions; References; Chapter 11 Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East; Early Christian Texts.…”
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Demography and the Graeco-Roman world : new insights and approaches. by Holleran, Claire

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: studies in ancient historical demography / Claire Holleran and April Pudsey -- Demography and development in classical antiquity / Neville Morley -- Demography and classical Athens / Ben Akrigg -- Nuptiality and the demographic life cycle of the family in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey -- Family matters: fertility and its constraints in Roman Italy / Saskia Hin -- Migration and the demes of Attica / Claire Taylor -- Counting the Greeks in Egypt: immigration in the first century of Ptolemaic rule / Christelle Fischer-Bovet -- Migration and the urban economy of Rome / Claire Holleran -- From the margins to the centre-stage: some closing reflections on ancient historical demography / Tim Parkin.…”
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Women's influence on classical civilization

Table of Contents: “…/ Mary Harlow -- Gender and cultural identity in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson.…”
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Bioarchaeology of frontiers and borderlands

Table of Contents: “…Toussaint -- Movement across borders -- Isotopes, migration, and sex: investigating the mobility of Roman Egypt's frontier inhabitants / Amanda T. Groff and Tosha L. …”
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Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality : Language Variation and Change. by Bentein, Klaas

Table of Contents: “…Confusion of Moods in Greek Private Letters of Roman Egypt? (Leiwo); ‎Chapter 12. Register Variation and Tense/Aspect/Mood Categories in Ancient Greek: Problems and Perspectives (Willi); ‎Index locorum; ‎Index nominum et rerum…”
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Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. by Howgego, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Coinage and Identity: The Jewish Evidence; 15. The Nome Coins of Roman Egypt; 16. The Roman West and the Roman East; References; Geographical Index; General Index; Key to Plates; Plates.…”
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The lawsuit motif in John's gospel from new perspectives : Jesus Christ, crucified criminal and emperor of the world by Bekken, Per Jarle

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Ancient Perspectives on Egypt. by Matthews, Roger, Dr

Table of Contents: “…6 Egypt and Mesopotamia in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages7 Finding the Egyptian in Early Greek Art; 8 Upside Down and Back to Front: Herodotus and the Greek Encounter with Egypt; 9 Encounters with Ancient Egypt: The Hellenistic Greek Experience; 10 Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt: New Perspectives on Graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos; 11 Carry-on at Canopus: the Nilotic mosaic from Palestrina and Roman Attitudes to Egypt; 12 Roman Poets on Egypt; References; Index 1: place names; Index 2: names of people, peoples and deities; Index 3: topics.…”
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Archaeologies of Empire Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories. by Boozer, Anna L.

Table of Contents: “…Agents of Empire: Imperial Agendas and Provincial Realities in Roman Egypt by Anna L. Boozer -- Chapter 6. The Assyrian Threshold: Explaining Imperial Consolidation in the Early Assyrian Empire by Bleda S. …”
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The Periplus Maris Erythraei : Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary.

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