The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Christina Riggs is Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Art, Media, and American Studies, 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.

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