Rome in egypt's eastern desert. Volume 2 / Hélène Cuvigny, edited by Roger S. Bagnall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuvigny, Hélène, author.

Contributor:

Bagnall, Roger S., editor.

Series:

ISAW Monographs ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Romans--Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Romans.

Fortification, Roman--Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Fortification, Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : New York University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholarRome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort 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, bringing to life the geography, administration, military, quarry operations, life in the forts, and the religion and expressive language of the population who lived in them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PART IV MILITARY RATIONS

19 A receipt for military rations in exchange for payment of publica

20 The monthly ration of a cavalryman and his horse according to an ostracon from the praesidium of Dios

21 An unrecognized type of military administrative document: the order for payment of frumentum praeteritum (O.Claud. inv. 7235 and Ch.L.A. XVIII 662)

PART V BUSINESS AND PROSTITUTION

22 Conductor praesidii

23 Quintana, a woman transformed into a tax

24 Rotating women: remarks on prostitution in the Roman garrisons of the Desert of Berenike

25 “Me too” in the praesidia, or when reality meets theatrical fiction

Part VI Desert Dwellers

Chapter 26 Kinaidokolpitai in a Greek ostracon from the Eastern Desert

Chapter 27 Papyrological evidence on “Barbarians” in the Egyptian Eastern Desert

Chapter 28 Public post, military intelligence, and dry cisterns: the letters of Diourdanos to Archibios, curator Claudiani

PART VII RELIGION AND MAGIC

Chapter 29 Twilight of a god: the decline of the cult of Pan in the Eastern Desert

Chapter 30 A soldier of the cohors I Lusitanorum at Didymoi: once again on the inscription I.Kanaïs 59bis

Chapter 31 The shrine in the praesidium of Dios (Eastern Desert of Egypt): graffiti and oracles in context

Chapter 32 The prefect of Egypt demobilizes some overage men and imposes a preventive “seal” (tattoo?)

Chapter 33 “The wheat for the Jews” (O.KaLa. inv. 228)

Chapter 34 The oldest representation of Moses, drawn by a Jew around ad 100

PART VIII LANGUAGE

Chapter 35 Πλήρωμα in the identification of soldiers in the navy

Chapter 36 Remarks on the use of ἴδιος in the epistolary prescript

Chapter 37 Πέμπειν/ἀγοράζειν τῆς τιμῆς in Greek letters from Egypt

Chapter 38 The names of cabbage in the Greek ostraca from the Eastern Desert: κράμβη, κραμβίον, καυλίον

Chapter 39 Χίλωμα = Haversack

Chapter 40 “When Heroïs has given birth . . .” ἐάν = ὅταν in temporal clauses referring to the future

CONCLUSION

Chapter 41 Are ostraca soluble in history?

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Indexes

1. Sources

2. Persons

3. Places and ethnic names

4. Greek and Latin words

5. Subjects

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479810741

1479810746

OCLC:

1267763073