The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 20
List of Contributors......Page 21
List of Abbreviations and Conventions......Page 25
Introduction......Page 29
PART I LAND AND STATE......Page 40
1. Aegypto Capta : Augustus and the Annexation of Egypt......Page 41
2. Between Water and Sand: Agriculture and Husbandry......Page 56
3. Manufacture, Trade, and the Economy......Page 77
4. Government, Taxation, and Law......Page 101
5. The Roman Army in Egypt......Page 118
6. The Imperial Cult in Egypt......Page 139
PART II CITY, TOWN, AND CHORA......Page 162
7. Alexandria......Page 163
8. Settlement and Population......Page 187
9. Archaeology in the Delta......Page 206
10. The Archaeology of the Fayum......Page 226
11. The Theban Region under the Roman Empire......Page 251
12. Classical Architecture......Page 276
13. City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel......Page 298
14. The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924–1935): Images from the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives......Page 321
PART III PEOPLE......Page 347
15. Status and Citizenship......Page 348
16. Identity......Page 366
17. The Jews in Roman Egypt: Trials and Rebellions......Page 389
18. Families, Households, and Children......Page 404
19. Age and Health......Page 427
PART IV RELIGION......Page 445
20. Religious Practice and Piety......Page 446
21. Coping with a Difficult Life: Magic, Healing, and Sacred Knowledge......Page 470
22. Egyptian Temples......Page 502
23. Funerary Religion: The Final Phase of an Egyptian Tradition......Page 531
24. Oracles......Page 551
25. Isis, Osiris, and Serapis......Page 578
26. Imported Cults......Page 600
27. Egyptian Cult: Evidence from Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies......Page 626
28. Christianity......Page 649
PART V TEXTS AND LANGUAGE......Page 670
29. Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism......Page 671
30. Papyri in the Archaeological Record......Page 690
31. Latin in Egypt......Page 702
32. Greek Language, Education, and Literary Culture......Page 715
33. Hieratic and Demotic Literature......Page 738
34. Egyptian Hieroglyphs......Page 765
35. Coptic......Page 789
PART VI IMAGES AND OBJECTS......Page 805
36. Funerary Artists: The Textual Evidence......Page 806
37. Portraits......Page 828
38. Terracottas......Page 851
39. Pottery......Page 875
40. Mummies and Mummification......Page 897
41. Nilotica and the Image of Egypt......Page 924
PART VII BORDERS, TRADE, AND TOURISM......Page 943
42. Travel and Pilgrimage......Page 944
43. The Western Oases......Page 965
44. The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports......Page 991
45. Between Egypt and Meroitic Nubia: The Southern Frontier Region......Page 1008
Index......Page 1026