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

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 h...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:ISAW Monographs
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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.
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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  • 13 An unpublished ostracon from the Eastern Desert and the provenance of O.Amst. 9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