Households in Context

Caitlín Eilís Barrett is Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. She is the author of Domesticating Empire and Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos. Jennifer Carrington has a PhD from Cornell University and is an archaeologist with a focus in museum and educational outreach.

Introduction: Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology ofDwelling

Households in Spatial Context: Settlements, Neighborhoods, and Urbanism

1. Egyptian Houses in Their Urban and Environmental Contexts: Some Case Studies of the Roman and Late Roman Periods

2. Neighborhood Networks: The Civic and Social Organization of Accessways in Ancient Karanis

3. The Tower Houses of the Hellenistic Period: A Solution to the Urban Pressure within Egyptian Towns and Villages

Households in Social Context: Families, Individuals, and Communities

4. The Papyrus Trail: Houses and Households in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

5. Habitatio: Transfer of Houses and Rights of Residence in Roman Egypt

6. Unsafe Houses in Greco-Roman Egypt: Forms and Locations of Violence

Households in Practice: Production, Consumption, and Discard

7. Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages

8. Domestic Discard: The Making and Unmaking of Romano-Egyptian Houses

Households in Cosmic Context: Religion and Ritual

9. Figurines and the Material Culture of Domestic Religion

10. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt: Perspectives from the "Magical" Corpus

Expanding the Household: Dwelling Practices in Monastic and Military Contexts

11. Three Monks and a House: The Archaeology of Monastic Houses in Byzantine Egypt

Domestic Activities in Alternative Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi'r Samut, Egypt

Afterwords: Perspectives from Pharaonic Egypt and the Classical World

1. Greco-Roman Households in Pharaonic Perspective

2. Contextualizing Houses, Households, and Homes in the Classical World and Beyond