The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Edited by Christina Riggs

Oxford Handbooks

Multi-disciplinary approach: includes essays on archaeology, language, religion, history, and art.
International field of contributors.
Thoroughly illustrated throughout.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Edited by Christina Riggs

Description

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today -- east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space.

This Handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Edited by Christina Riggs

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List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction, Christina Riggs
Part 1: Land and State
1. Aegypto capta: Augustus and the Annexation of Egypt, Friederike Herklotz
2. Between Water and Sand: Agriculture and Husbandry, Katherine Blouin
3. Manufacture, Trade, and the Economy, Matt Gibbs
4. Government, Taxation, and Law, Andrea Jordens
5. The Roman Army in Egypt, Rudolf Haensch
6. The Imperial Cult in Egypt, Stefan Pfeiffer
Part 2: City, Town, and Chora
7. Alexandria, Marjorie S. Venit
8. Settlement and Population, Laurens E. Tacoma
9. Archaeology in the Delta, Penelope Wilson
10. The Archaeology of the Fayum, Paola Davoli
11. The Theban Region under the Roman Empire, Adam ?ajtar
12. Classical Architecture in Roman Egypt, Donald M. Bailey
13. City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel, Katja Lembke
14. The University of Michigan Excavation of Karanis (1924-1935): Images from the Kelsey Museum Photographic Archives, T. G. Wilfong
Part 3: People
15. Status and Citizenship, Andrea Jordens
16. Identity, Katelijn Vandorpe
17. The Jews in Roman Egypt: Trials and Rebellions, Andrew Harker
18. Families, Households, and Children in Roman Egypt, Myrto Malouta
19. Age and Health, Walter Scheidel, Myrto Malouta
Part 4: Religion
20. Religious Practice and Piety, David Frankfurter
21. Coping with a Difficult Life: Magic, Healing, and Sacred Knowledge in Roman Egypt, Jacco Dieleman
22. Egyptian Temples of the Roman Period, Martina Minas-Nerpel
23. Funerary Religion in Roman Egypt: The Final Phase of an Egyptian Tradition, Martin Andreas Stadler
24. Oracles in Roman Egypt, Gaelle Tallet
25. Isis, Osiris, and Serapis in the Roman Period, Martin Bommas
26. Imported Cults in Roman Egypt,, Gaelle Tallet and Christiane Zivie-Coche
27. Egyptian Cult: The Evidence from the Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies, Martin Andreas Stadler
28. Christianity, Malcolm Choat
Part 5: Texts and Language
29. Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism, Mark Depauw
30. Papyri in the Archaeological Record, Arthur Verhoogt
31. Latin in Egypt, T. V. Evans
32. Greek Language, Education, and Literary Culture, Amin Benaissa
33. Hieratic and Demotic Literature, Friedhelm Hoffmann
34. Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Roman Period, David Klotz
35. Coptic, Malcolm Choat
Part 6: Images and Objects
36. 36. Art without Artistsa A Textual Window on the Funerary Artists of Roman Egypt, Maria Cannata
37. 37. Portraits in Roman Egypt, Barbara E. Borg
38. 38. Terracottas, Sandra Sandri
39. 39. Pottery, Jennifer Gates-Foster
40. 40. Mummies and Mummification in Roman Egypt: Decline or Heydaya, Beatrix Gessler -Lohr
41. Nilotica and the Image of Egypt, Molly Swetnam-Burland
Part 7: Borders, Trade, and Tourism
42. Travel and Pilgrimage in Roman Egypt, Ian C. Rutherford
43. The Western Oases, Olaf E. Kaper
44. The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports, Jennifer Gates-Foster
45. Between Egypt and Meroitic Nubia: The Southern Frontier Region, Laszlo Torok

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Edited by Christina Riggs

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Author Information

Christina Riggs is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, having previously worked in museums in Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Author of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (Oxford 2005), Riggs studied at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard Univeristy, before receiving her doctorate from Oxford University.

Contributors:

Donald M. Bailey
Amin Benaissa (British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Katherine Blouin (Assistant Professor in Greek and Roman History, University of Toronto)
Martin Bommas (Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Curator of the Eton Myers Collection, University of Birmingham)
Barbara E. Borg (Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Exeter)
Maria Cannata (editor, Discussions in Egyptology journal)
Malcolm Choat (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History and member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney)
Paola Davoli (Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of Salento)
Mark Depauw (Associate Professor in the Research Unit for Ancient History, Katholieke University, Leuven)
Jacco Dieleman (Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of California, Los Angeles)
T. V. Evans (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney)
David Frankfurter (Professor of Religion and Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University)
Jennifer Gates-Foster (Department of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin)
Beatrix Gessler-Löhr (Egyptologist based, Heidelberg)
Matt Gibbs (Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Rudolf Haensch (Co-Director of the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the German Archaeological Institute and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)
Andrew Harker (teaches Classics in Hertfordshire)
Friederike Herklotz (member of the Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Humboldt University)
Friedhelm Hoffmann (Professor of Egyptology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)
Andrea Jördens (Professor of Papyrology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg)
Olaf E. Kaper (Professor of Egyptology, Leiden University)
David Klotz (Post-Doctoral Research Affiliate, Yale University)
Adam Lajtar (Professor of Greek epigraphy and papyrology, University of Warsaw)
Katja Lembke (Director of the Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim)
Myrto Malouta (Lecturer in Papyrology at the Ionian University, Corfu)
Martina Minas-Nerpel (Reader in Egyptology at Swansea University)
Stefan Pfeiffer (Professor for the Ancient World and Europe, Chemnitz Technological University)
Ian C. Rutherford (Classics, University of Reading)
Sandra Sandri
Walter Scheidel (Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University)
Martin Andreas Stadler (Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Würzburg)
Molly Swetnam-Burland (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, The College of William and Mary, Virginia)
Laurens Ernst (Rens) Tacoma (Lecturer in ancient history, Leiden University)
Gaëlle Tallet (Université de Limoges, France)
László Török (Research Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Katelijn Vandorpe (Professor of Ancient History at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Marjorie S. Venit (Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland)
Arthur Verhoogt (Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek and Acting Archivist of the Papyrus Collection at the University of Michigan)
T. G. Wilfong (Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan)
Penelope Wilson (Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University)
Christiane Zivie-Coche (Director of Studies and Chair of Ancient Egyptian Religion at the École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)