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Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall contains 70 new or
substantially revised editions of documentary and non-documentary
papyri and ostraca from Egypt edited by an international team of
specialists. Texts span the 7th century B.C.E. to the 9th century
C.E. They are written mainly in Greek but also in Latin, Egyptian,
and Arabic. Each text is accompanied by a translation, line-by-line
commentary, and photo. The volume includes the standard indices
found in papyrological text editions.
This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the
excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh
Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons
between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's
western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia
University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all
aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative
center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on
three areas of this very large site: a centrally located
upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an
adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a
more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with
remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of
earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and
partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick
pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. This is the
second volume of ostraka from the excavations Amheida (ancient
Trimithis) in Egypt. It adds 491 items to the growing corpus of
primary texts from the site. In addition to the catalog, the
introductory sections make important contributions to understanding
the role of textual practice in the life of a pre-modern small
town. Issues addressed include tenancy, the administration of
water, governance, the identification of individuals in the
archaeological record, the management of estates, personal
handwriting, and the uses of personal names. Additionally, the
chapter "Ceramic Fabrics and Shapes” by Clementina Caputo breaks
new ground in the treatment of these inscribed shards as both
written text and physical object. This volume will be of interest
to specialists in Roman-period Egypt as well as to scholars of
literacy and writing in the ancient world and elsewhere.
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