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The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East
Av Zahra Newby
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. …
Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt
Inbunden, 2011
2941 kr
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This book examines the contribution that petitioning and litigation made to the maintenance of the social order in Roman Egypt between 30 BC and AD 284. Through the analysis of the many hundreds of documents surviving on papyrus, especially petitions, reports of court proceedings, and letters, …
Teos and Abdera
Two Cities in Peace and War
Av Mustafa Adak, Peter Thonemann
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians in the repopulation and rebuilding …
The Uley Tablets
Roman Curse Tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley
Inbunden, 2024
2737 kr
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The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring …
Asia Minor and the Third Century CE
The Epigraphic Continuity of Civic Life in a Changing Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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Asia Minor and the Third Century CE: The Epigraphic Continuity of Civic Life in a Changing Roman Empire examines the inscriptions of southern and western Anatolia from the accession of Septimius Severus to the rise of Diocletian (193-284 CE). During these years of pivotal transition between the …
Proxeny and Polis
Institutional Networks in the Ancient Greek World
Av William Mack
Inbunden, 2015
2333 kr
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Known from ancient authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato, and more than 2,500 inscriptions, proxeny (a form of public guest-friendship) is the best attested interstate institution of the ancient world. Proxeny and Polis offers a comprehensive re-examination of our evidence for this …
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period
Av Jennifer Cromwell, Eitan Grossman
Inbunden, 2017
2591 kr
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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. While traditional …
The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt
Av CROWTHER BOWMAN, Alan Bowman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2441 kr
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The Ptolemaic period in Egypt (332-30 BC) is one of the most well-documented periods of the Hellenistic age: in addition to the papyrological record there are more than 600 surviving Greek and Greek/Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions, ranging from massive public monuments, such as the …
The Early Greek Alphabets
Origin, Diffusion, Uses
Av Robert Parker, Robert Parker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1853 kr
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions: Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206)
Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt
Av Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3007 kr
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This is the first of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period between Alexander's conquest in 332 BC and the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. The Corpus offers scholarly editions, with translations, …
Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context
Volume II: Bullae and Seals
Av Ma Tuplin, Christopher J. Tuplin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2231 kr
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During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Aršāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material …
Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context
Volume III: Aršāma's World
Av Christopher J. Tuplin, John Ma
Inbunden, 2020
2860 kr
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During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Aršāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt - Volume 2, The Fayum and the Valley (Nos. 207-409)
Av Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3515 kr
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This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. This volume contains 221 numbered items (some covering …
Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West
Av Alex Mullen
Inbunden, 2023
2231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been …
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West
Inbunden, 2024
2105 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The patchwork of local languages which existed across the western provinces in the …
Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
Av Alex Mullen, George Woudhuysen
Inbunden, 2023
2231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as …
Greek Personal Names in Egypt
Av Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Yanne Broux
Inbunden, 2025
1461 kr
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Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change. The work explores naming practices and their …
Greek Astrological Treatises on Papyrus
Av Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Inbunden, 2027
3592 kr
Kommande
Greek Astrological Treatises on Papyrus approaches a genre of text conventionally termed 'astrological'. This genre concerned how the stars 'influence' the world below them, which motivated the ancient study of how the stars moved, now considered 'astronomical'. The study of both branches of the …
Image to Interpretation
An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts
Inbunden, 2006
3555 kr
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The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts …
Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
Av BROSIUS, Maria Brosius
Inbunden, 2003
4918 kr
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Our oldest archival records originate from the Near East. Systems of archival record-keeping developed over several millennia in Mesopotamia before spreading to Egypt, the Mycenean world, and the Persian empire, and continuing through the Hellenistic and Seleucid periods. Yet we know little about …
The Greek Theatre and Festivals
Documentary Studies
Av Peter Wilson
Inbunden, 2007
4732 kr
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A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological remains and monuments - …
Spirits of the Dead
Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe
Inbunden, 2006
1894 kr
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Spirits of the Dead examines the importance attached to preserving the memory of the dead in the Roman world, and explores the ways in which funerary inscriptions can be used to reconstruct Roman lives, however fragmentarily and imperfectly. It is the only study to examine epigraphic, historical, …
The Customs Law of Asia
Av M. Cottier, M. H. Crawford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
3366 kr
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The Roman Empire was based on law, and it was vital for rulers and ruled that laws should be understood. They were often given permanent form in stone or bronze. This book transcribes, translates, and fully illustrates with photographs, the inscription (more than 155 lines, in its damaged state) …
Spirits of the Dead
Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe
Häftad, 2011
942 kr
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Spirits of the Dead examines the importance attached to preserving the memory of the dead in the Roman world, and explores the ways in which funerary inscriptions can be used to reconstruct Roman lives, however fragmentarily and imperfectly. It is the only study to examine epigraphic, historical, …
Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis
Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD
Av Paraskevi Martzavou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Inbunden, 2012
2039 kr
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This volume richly illustrates the multiple ways in which epigraphy enables historical analysis of the postclassical polis (city-state) across a world of geographically dispersed poleis: from the Black Sea and Asia Minor to Sicily via the Aegean and mainland Greece. The collection of 16 papers …
Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature
Inbunden, 2013
2181 kr
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Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature offers a broad set of perspectives on the diverse forms of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.This collection of essays explores the various …
The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt
Inbunden, 2013
2063 kr
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This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical practicalities of the media used …
Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context
Volume I: The Bodleian Letters
Av Ma Tuplin, Christopher J. Tuplin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2705 kr
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During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Aršāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material …
