Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Volume 1 / Hélène Cuvigny ; edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuvigny, Hélène, author.

Contributor:

Bagnall, Roger S., editor, translator.

Series:

ISAW monographs.

ISAW Monographs

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ostraka--Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Ostraka.

Antiquities.

Eastern Desert (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Eastern Desert (Egypt).

Mons Claudianus Site (Egypt).

Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.

Egypt.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Rome.

Egypt--Eastern Desert.

Egypt--Mons Claudianus Site.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 322 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

"Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert collects Prof. Cuvigny's most important articles on Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period. From the excavations of the forts that she has directed have come a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on potsherds (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 for periods of time in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but almost entirely in French. All contributions have been translated or checked 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 will make this body of work far more accessible than it now is. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Preface

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Original Publications of the Chapters

Map of the Eastern Desert

VOLUME 1

Introduction and Survey

Introduction

1. A survey of place-names in the Egyptian Eastern Desert during the principate according to the ostraca and the inscriptions

Part I. Senior Administrators

2. Ulpius Himeros, imperial procurator (I.Pan 53)

3. Sulpicius Serenus, procurator Augusti, and the titulature of the prefects of Berenike

4. Claudius Lucilianus, prefect of an ala and of Berenike

5. Vibius Alexandros, prefect and epistrategos of the Heptanomia

6. Procurator Montis

Part II. The Quarries

7. Greek ostraca from Mons Claudianus, revisited

8. An inscription of an ergodótēs in a quarry at Mons Claudianus

9. The amount of the wages paid to the quarry-workers at Mons Claudianus

10. Two ostraca from Mons Claudianus: O.Bahria 20 and 21

11. The organization chart of the personnel of an imperial quarry according to an ostracon of Mons Claudianus

12. A dedication to Zeus Helios Great Sarapis in honor of a desector on an ostracon from Mons Claudianus

Part III. The Road System and the Mail

13. An unpublished ostracon from the Eastern Desert and the provenance of O.Amst. 9

14. Kaine, a new town: an experiment in familial reunification in the second century AD

15. The road system of the Eastern Desert of Egypt under the Early Empire in the light of the excavated ostraca

16. Collection of cases of irregularities in the transmission of official mail

17. The postal register of Turbo, curator of the praesidium of Xeron Pelagos

18. Men and gods in a network

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021)

ISBN:

9781479810680

1479810681

OCLC:

1267765328