An Oasis City /

An Oasis City / / Paola Davoli, Raffaella Cribiore, Nicola Aravecchia, Roger S. Bagnall, Olaf E. Kaper, Susanna McFadden.

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Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt’s Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells drawing on ancient aquifers. In antiquity, as today, they supported agricultural communities, going...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Bagnall, Roger S.,
Aravecchia, Nicola,
Cribiore, Raffaella,
Kaper, Olaf E.,
McFadden, Susanna,
MitwirkendeR:
Aravecchia, Nicola,
Bagnall, Roger S.,
Cribiore, Raffaella,
Davoli, Paola,
Kaper, Olaf E. Kaper,
Kaper, Olaf E.,
McFadden, Susanna,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:ISAW Monographs ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 black and white illustrations, 128 Illustrations, color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • CHRONOLOGICAL CHART
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AMHEIDA IN ITS SURROUNDINGS
  • 1.1. THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE AND ITS EVOLUTION
  • 1.2. THE SACRED LANDSCAPE
  • 1.3. THE ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE
  • 2. AMEHIDA BEFORE THE ROMANS
  • 2.1. EARLY REMAINS ON THE TEMPLE HILL
  • 2.2. TEXTUAL AND DECORATIVE EVIDENCE FOR THE NEW KINGDOM AND THE THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
  • 2.3. THE TEMPLES OF THE LATE PERIOD
  • 2.4. A SACRED NECROPOLIS
  • 3. THE URBAN LANDSCAPE DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD
  • 3.1. THE CITY PLAN OF ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN TRIMITHIS
  • 3.2. THE BATHS OF TRIMITHIS
  • 3.3. TWO HOUSES
  • 4. EGYPTIAN RELIGION AT TRIMITHIS DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD
  • 4.1. THE TEMPLE
  • 4.2. FUNERARY LIFE: THE PYRAMIDS
  • 4.3. ONOMASTICS
  • 5. CHRISTIANITY AT TRIMITHIS AND IN THE DAKHLA OASIS
  • 5.1. THE CHURCH OF TRIMITHIS
  • 5.2. OTHER EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AT AMHEIDA
  • 5.3. OTHER CHURCHES IN DAKHLA: KELLIS,'AIN EL-GEDI-DA, DEIR ABU MATTA, DEIR EL-MOLOUK,'AIN ES-SABIL
  • 6. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN OASIS
  • 6.1. THE OASIS ECONOMY
  • 6.2. A RURAL SETTLEMENT IN THE OASIS SYSTEM
  • 6.3. GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY
  • 6.4. OASIS SOCIETY
  • 7. TRIMITHIS IN THE CULTURE OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
  • 7.1. LITERARY CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN THE DAKHLA OASIS
  • 7.2. AHMEIDA'S WALL PAINTINGS
  • 7.3. THE EVIDENCE OF GREEK NAMES
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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