Antinopoulis III : : tomo I / / a cura di Rosario Pintaudi.

• Superior document: Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Pintaudi, Rosario,
• Place / Publishing House: Italy : : Firenze University Press,, 2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Italian
• Series: Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Another volume, Antinoupolis III, which deals with an extremely important archaeological area in Greco-Roman Egypt: the city founded on the left bank of the Nile in 130 AD. by Hadrian in honour of Antinoos. In the more than 700 pages of the two volumes that make up this volume, studies dedicated to archaeological materials such as African sealed ceramics, locally produced wine amphorae (LRA 7), lithic mortars, sporadic fragments of ornamental stones, a back-painted glass, fabrics of the so-called 'Coptic' typology, analysis of forensic anthropology on the bone remains of a certain Theodosia, whose funeral chapel had been discovered and illustrated in the excavations conducted on the site of the University of Florence in the mid-thirties of last year century. In the second volume there are editions of new papyri, parchments, ostraca, which report texts made up of documents of everyday life or of classical and Christian literary culture. The languages ​​concerned are Greek, Coptic and Arabic. Important novelties are represented by inscriptions, mostly funerary, still in these three languages. The documentation bears witness to the life that, especially in late antiquity, continued in what remained of a great Roman metropolis in one of the most important provinces of the empire, Egypt.