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Materia Magica
The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain
Häftad, 2015
519 kr
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This exciting new study draws on objects excavated or discovered in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century at three Mediterranean sites. Through the three case studies, Materia Magica identifies specific forms of magic that may be otherwise unknown. It isolates the practitioners of magic …
Settling a Dispute
Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt
Av Traianos Gagos, Peter Van Minnen
Häftad, 1994
565 kr
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Family squabbles and fights over real estate were no less complex in sixth-century Egypt than they are in the modern world. In this unusual volume Peter van Minnen and Traianos Gagos investigate just such a struggle, as described in a two-part papyrus some five feet long. Composed by the ancient …
Women of Jeme
Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt
Häftad, 2002
395 kr
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Get to know the women of Jeme, a Christian enclave in Egypt that existed from 600 to 800 C.E.Using texts documenting the women's activities, the physical remains of their possessions, and the writings of the local religious leaders, T. G. Wilfong traces the lives and careers of individual women …
Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt
Inbunden, 2017
1017 kr
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Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family (fifth through seventh centuries), who rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. The focus of most scholarly debate has been …
Recording Village Life
A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt
Inbunden, 2017
1372 kr
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Recording Village Life presents a close study of over 140 Coptic texts written between 724–756 CE by a single scribe, Aristophanes son of Johannes, of the village Djeme in western Thebes. These texts, which focus primarily on taxation and property concerns, yield a wealth of knowledge about social …
Ancient Latin Poetry Books
Materiality and Context
Inbunden, 2021
1159 kr
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Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each …
Confiscation or Coexistence
Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus
Inbunden, 2022
1088 kr
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It is generally accepted that Roman administrators, arriving in Egypt in the aftermath of Augustus’ annexation of the province, confiscated en masse the land and other property belonging to the temples of Egypt—estimated at as much as one-third of the country. It is further accepted that this …
Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies
Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes
Av Christopher Faraone, Sofia Torallas Tovar
Inbunden, 2022
1372 kr
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Winner of the 2023 Society for Classical Studies Charles J. Goodwin Award of MeritIn Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals—many of the same challenges that modern people might face. …
Garden of Egypt
Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum
Av Brendan Haug
Inbunden, 2024
1088 kr
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2025 American Society of Papyrologists Book Prize WinnerGarden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt’s Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the …
