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Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert - Volume Two (Hardcover)
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Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert - Volume Two (Hardcover)
Series: ISAW Monographs
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A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert
during the Roman period by a leading scholar Rome in Egypt's
Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Helene Cuvigny's most
important articles on Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman
period. The excavations that she has directed have uncovered a
wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on
pottery fragments (ostraca). Some of these are administrative
texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private,
written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and
worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an
elaborate network of defense, administration and supply that tied
the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt's Eastern
Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but
almost entirely in French. All of the contributions have been
translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to
bibliography and in some cases significantly rewritten by the
author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new
material discovered in the intervening time and subsequent
publications. A full index makes this body of work far more
accessible than it was before. This book brings together thirty
years of detailed study of this material, conjuring in vivid detail
the lived experience of those who inhabited these forts--often
through their own expressive language--and the realia of desert
geography, military life, sex, religion, quarry operations, and
imperial administration in the Roman world.
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