Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert: Volume Two

Hélène Cuvignys Rome in Egypts Eastern Desert is a two-volume set that contains her most important articles on Egypts Eastern Desert during the Roman period. The excavations she directed uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). The contents of the book have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but most appear here for the first time in English. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before.

Format: Hardback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 25 October 2021
Publisher: New York University Press

Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert is a two-volume set that compiles Hélène Cuvigny's most significant articles on Egypt's Eastern Desert during the Roman period. The excavations she led uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration, and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but most appear here for the first time in English. All of the contributions have been checked or translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography, and some have been significantly rewritten by the author to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered since the original publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before.

This book assembles into one collection thirty years of detailed study of this material, conjuring in vivid detail the lived experience of those who inhabited these forts—often through their own expressive language—and the realia of desert geography, military life, sex, religion, quarry operations, and imperial administration in the Roman world.

Weight: 1326g
Dimension: 223 x 287 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781479810697