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A comprehensive study of the archaeology of the House of Serenos
The House of Serenos, Part II is the second of four books devoted
to publishing the archaeology of the House of Serenos, a richly
decorated, late antique villa of a local élite, located in Amheida
(ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The House of
Serenos, Part II synthesizes the archaeological information
presented in detail in other volumes in a comprehensive study of
the architectural and archaeological history of the house and its
relationship to its natural and built environments, from
construction through expansion and renovation to its eventual
abandonment around the end of the fourth century. The volume
includes discussions of archaeological method, stratigraphy,
architecture, and the archaeological assemblages discovered in the
House of Serenos—and reveals what all this can tell us about the
inhabitants and their experience living in this high-status
residence at the edge of the Roman Empire.
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An Oasis City (Hardcover)
Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, Olaf E Kaper, …
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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 back to Neolithic times but
expanding greatly in the millennium from the Saite pharaohs to the
Roman emperors. New technologies of irrigation and transportation
made the oases integral parts of an imperial economy. Amheida,
ancient Trimithis, was one of those oasis communities. Located in
the western part of the Dakhla Oasis, it was an important regional
center, reaching a peak in the Roman period before being abandoned.
Over the past decade, excavations at this well-preserved site have
revealed its urban layout and brought to light houses, streets, a
bath, a school, and a church. The only standing brick pyramid of
the Roman period in Egypt has been restored. Wall-paintings, temple
reliefs, pottery, and texts all contribute to give a lively sense
of its political, religious, economic, and cultural life. This book
presents these aspects of the city's existence and its close ties
to the Nile valley, by way of long desert roads, in an accessible
and richly illustrated fashion.
The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of
the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental
conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt.
The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to
collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and
archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human
occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing
the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new
research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through
Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period.
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