Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Volume 2 /

"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 (o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cuvigny, Hélène
Other Authors: Bagnall, Roger S. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : New York University Press, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2021.
Series:ISAW monographs.
Subjects:
332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Ostraka > Egypt > Eastern Desert.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Antiquities
Ostraka
Eastern Desert (Egypt) > Antiquities.
Mons Claudianus Site (Egypt)
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Egypt > History > Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Mons Claudianus (Égypte : Site archéologique)
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-284 (Empire)
Égypte > Histoire > 332 av. J.-C.-640 (Période gréco-romaine)
Egypt
Egypt > Eastern Desert
Egypt > Mons Claudianus Site
Rome (Empire)
Eastern Desert.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • VOLUME 2
  • 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
  • 26. Kinaidokolpitai in a Greek ostracon from the Eastern Desert
  • 27. Papyrological evidence on "Barbarians" in the Egyptian Eastern Desert
  • 28. Public post, military intelligence, and dry cisterns: the letters of Diourdanos to Archibios, curator Claudiani
  • Part VII. Religion and Magic
  • 29. Twilight of a god: the decline of the cult of Pan in the Eastern Desert
  • B. Personal and geographical names
  • B. Latin
  • a. Lexical
  • b. Personal and geographical names
  • 5. Subjects

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