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The House of Serenos, Part I - The Pottery (Amheida V) (Hardcover)
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The House of Serenos, Part I - The Pottery (Amheida V) (Hardcover)
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A comprehensive archaeological study of the ceramic finds from a
house in Amheida The House of Serenos: Part I: The Pottery (Amheida
V) is a comprehensive full-color catalog and analysis of the
ceramic finds from the late antique house of a local notable and
adjacent streets in Amheida. It is the fifth book in the Amheida
series. Amheida is located in the western part of the Dakhla oasis,
3.5 km south of the medieval town of El-Qasr. Known in Hellenistic
and Roman times as Trimithis, Amheida became a polis by 304 CE and
was a major administrative center of the western part of the oasis
for the whole of the fourth century. The home's owner was one
Serenos, a member of the municipal elite and a Trimithis city
councillor, as we know from documents found in the house. His house
is particularly well preserved with respect to floor plan,
relationship to the contemporary urban topography, and decoration,
including domestic display spaces plastered and painted with
subjects drawn from Greek mythology and scenes depicting the family
that owned the house. The archaeology from the site also reveals
the ways in which the urban space changed over time, as Serenos's
house was built over and expanded into some previously public
spaces. The house was probably abandoned around or soon after 370
CE. The pottery analyzed in this volume helps to refine the
relationship of the archaeological layers belonging to the elite
house and the layers below it; it also sheds light on the domestic
and economic life of the household and region, from cooking and
dining to the management of a complex agricultural economy in which
ceramics were the most common form of container for basic
commodities. The book will be of interest to specialists interested
in ceramology, Roman Egypt, and the material culture, social
history, and economy of late antiquity.
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