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

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

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.