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

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• VerfasserIn: Cuvigny, Hélène,
• 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 ; 13
• 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 h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• PART IV MILITARY RATIONS
• 19 A receipt for military rations in exchange for payment of publica
• 20 The monthly ration of a cavalryman and his horse according to an ostracon from the praesidium of Dios
• 21 An unrecognized type of military administrative document: the order for payment of frumentum praeteritum (O.Claud. inv. 7235 and Ch.L.A. XVIII 662)
• PART V BUSINESS AND PROSTITUTION
• 22 Conductor praesidii
• 23 Quintana, a woman transformed into a tax
• 24 Rotating women: remarks on prostitution in the Roman garrisons of the Desert of Berenike
• 25 “Me too” in the praesidia, or when reality meets theatrical fiction
• Part VI Desert Dwellers
• Chapter 26 Kinaidokolpitai in a Greek ostracon from the Eastern Desert
• Chapter 27 Papyrological evidence on “Barbarians” in the Egyptian Eastern Desert
• Chapter 28 Public post, military intelligence, and dry cisterns: the letters of Diourdanos to Archibios, curator Claudiani
• PART VII RELIGION AND MAGIC
• Chapter 29 Twilight of a god: the decline of the cult of Pan in the Eastern Desert
• Chapter 30 A soldier of the cohors I Lusitanorum at Didymoi: once again on the inscription I.Kanaïs 59bis
• Chapter 31 The shrine in the praesidium of Dios (Eastern Desert of Egypt): graffiti and oracles in context
• Chapter 32 The prefect of Egypt demobilizes some overage men and imposes a preventive “seal” (tattoo?)
• Chapter 33 “The wheat for the Jews” (O.KaLa. inv. 228)
• Chapter 34 The oldest representation of Moses, drawn by a Jew around ad 100
• PART VIII LANGUAGE
• Chapter 35 Πλήρωμα in the identification of soldiers in the navy
• Chapter 36 Remarks on the use of ἴδιος in the epistolary prescript
• Chapter 37 Πέμπειν/ἀγοράζειν τῆς τιμῆς in Greek letters from Egypt
• Chapter 38 The names of cabbage in the Greek ostraca from the Eastern Desert: κράμβη, κραμβίον, καυλίον
• Chapter 39 Χίλωμα = Haversack
• Chapter 40 “When Heroïs has given birth . . .” ἐάν = ὅταν in temporal clauses referring to the future
• CONCLUSION
• Chapter 41 Are ostraca soluble in history?
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Indexes
• 1. Sources
• 2. Persons
• 3. Places and ethnic names
• 4. Greek and Latin words
• 5. Subjects