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.

A remarkable expansion

• LIST OF FIGURES ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION, CHRISTINA RIGGS ; PART 1: LAND AND STATE ; PART 2: CITY, TOWN, AND CHORA ; PART 3: PEOPLE ; PART 4: RELIGION ; PART 5: TEXTS AND LANGUAGE ; PART 6: IMAGES AND OBJECTS ; PART 7: BORDERS, TRADE, AND TOURISM

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.

A remarkable expansion

• LIST OF FIGURES ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION, CHRISTINA RIGGS ; PART 1: LAND AND STATE ; PART 2: CITY, TOWN, AND CHORA ; PART 3: PEOPLE ; PART 4: RELIGION ; PART 5: TEXTS AND LANGUAGE ; PART 6: IMAGES AND OBJECTS ; PART 7: BORDERS, TRADE, AND TOURISM

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.

A remarkable expansion

• LIST OF FIGURES ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION, CHRISTINA RIGGS ; PART 1: LAND AND STATE ; PART 2: CITY, TOWN, AND CHORA ; PART 3: PEOPLE ; PART 4: RELIGION ; PART 5: TEXTS AND LANGUAGE ; PART 6: IMAGES AND OBJECTS ; PART 7: BORDERS, TRADE, AND TOURISM