Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert : : Volume One / / Hélène Cuvigny; ed. by Roger S. Bagnall.

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• VerfasserIn: Cuvigny, Hélène,
• MitwirkendeR: Bagnall, Roger S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bagnall, Roger S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: ISAW Monographs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 5 color maps; 2 b/w maps; 1 color plan; 4 b/w plans; 35 color illustrations; 94 b/w illustrations; 2 b/w architectural plans; 1 color chart.

A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholarRome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some of these are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but almost entirely in French. All of the contributions have been translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography and in some cases significantly rewritten by the author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered in the intervening time and subsequent publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before. This book brings together thirty years of detailed study of this material, bringing to life the geography, administration, military, quarry operations, life in the forts, and the religion and expressive language of the population who lived in them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Original Publications of the Chapters -- Map of the Eastern Desert -- Introduction and Survey -- Introduction -- 1 A survey of place-names in the Egyptian Eastern Desert during the principate according to the ostraca and the inscriptions -- PART I SENIOR ADMINISTRATORS -- 2 Ulpius Himeros, imperial procurator (I.Pan 53) -- 3 Sulpicius Serenus, procurator Augusti, and the titulature of the prefects of Berenike -- 4 Claudius Lucilianus, prefect of an ala and of Berenike -- 5 Vibius Alexandros, prefect and epistrategos of the Heptanomia -- 6 Procurator Montis -- PART II THE QUARRIES -- 7 Greek ostraca from Mons Claudianus, revisited -- 8 An inscription of an ἐργοδότης in a quarry at Mons Claudianus -- 9 The amount of the wages paid to the quarry-workers at Mons Claudianus -- 10 Two ostraca from Mons Claudianus: O.Bahria 20 and 21 -- 11 The organization chart of the personnel of an imperial quarry according to an ostracon of Mons Claudianus -- 12 A dedication to Zeus Helios Great Sarapis in honor of a desector on an ostracon from Mons Claudianus -- PART III THE ROAD SYSTEM AND THE MAIL -- 13 An unpublished ostracon from the Eastern Desert and the provenance of O.Amst. 9 -- 14 Kaine, a new town: an experiment in familial reunification in the second century ad -- 15 The road system of the Eastern Desert of Egypt under the Early Empire in the light of the excavated ostraca -- 16 Collection of cases of irregularities in the transmission of official mail -- 17 The postal register of Turbo, curator of the praesidium of Xeron Pelagos -- 18 Men and gods in a network