An Oasis City / / Susanna McFadden, Olaf E. Kaper, Nicola Aravecchia, Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ISAW Monographs ;
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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 Table
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Amheida in Its Surroundings
- 2 Amheida before the Romans
- 3 The Urban Landscape during the Roman Period
- 4 Egyptian Religion at Trimithis during the Roman Period
- 5 Christianity at Trimithis and in the Dakhla Oasis
- 6 Economy and Society in the Roman Oasis
- 7 Trimithis in the Culture of the Eastern Roman Empire
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index