The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction
PART I: LAND AND STATE
	1. Aegypto Capta: Augustus and the Annexation of Egypt
	2. Between Water and Sand: Agriculture and Husbandry
	3. Manufacture, Trade, and the Economy
	4. Government, Taxation, and Law
	5. The Roman Army in Egypt
	6. The Imperial Cult in Egypt
PART II: CITY, TOWN, AND CHORA
	7. Alexandria
	8. Settlement and Population
	9. Archaeology in the Delta
	10. The Archaeology of the Fayum
	11. The Theban Region under the Roman Empire
	12. Classical Architecture
	13. City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel
	14. The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924–1935): Images from the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives
PART III: PEOPLE
	15. Status and Citizenship
	16. Identity
	17. The Jews in Roman Egypt: Trials and Rebellions
	18. Families, Households, and Children
	19. Age and Health
PART IV: RELIGION
	20. Religious Practice and Piety
	21. Coping with a Difficult Life: Magic, Healing, and Sacred Knowledge
	22. Egyptian Temples
	23. Funerary Religion: The Final Phase of an Egyptian Tradition
	24. Oracles
	25. Isis, Osiris, and Serapis
	26. Imported Cults
	27. Egyptian Cult: Evidence from Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies
	28. Christianity
PART V: TEXTS AND LANGUAGE
	29. Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism
	30. Papyri in the Archaeological Record
	31. Latin in Egypt
	32. Greek Language, Education, and Literary Culture
	33. Hieratic and Demotic Literature
	34. Egyptian Hieroglyphs
	35. Coptic
PART VI: IMAGES AND OBJECTS
	36. Funerary Artists: The Textual Evidence
	37. Portraits
	38. Terracottas
	39. Pottery
	40. Mummies and Mummification
	41. Nilotica and the Image of Egypt
PART VII: BORDERS , TRADE , AND TOURISM
	42. Travel and Pilgrimage
	43. The Western Oases
	44. The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports
	45. Between Egypt and Meroitic Nubia: The Southern Frontier Region
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