Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts (Graeco-Roman Memoirs)
by Alan K. Bowman (Editor)
Graeco-Roman Memoirs (No. 93)
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The volume offers an account of Oxyrhynchus as an ancient city and archaeological site by surveying its material culture and art objects, including sculpture and draftsmanship, against the backdrop of the papyrus texts. It includes treatments of the site itself (city plan, topography, monuments, art architecture), the history of the excavations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as a synthesis of the study of the social, cultural and intellectual life under Greek, Roman and show more Byzantine rule. Original contributions by E.G. Turner and W.M.F. Petrie are reprinted; the original archaeological reports are edited with noted. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2007
- People/Characters
- Arthur S. Hunt; Bernard Grenfell; Flinders Petrie; E. G. Turner
- Important places
- Egypt; Oxyrhynchus, Egypt; Egypt, al-Bahnasa; Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK; England, UK
- First words
- This volume focuses on the site of Oxyrhyncus (modern Bahnasa) in Middle Egypt: its buildings, art, monuments, and ancient manuscripts ('papyri', ancient paper) recovered through excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth ce... (show all)nturies.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 932.02 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Egypt to 640 Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine periods, 332 b.c-640 ad.
- LCC
- DT73 .O8 .O89 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Africa History of Africa Egypt Local antiquities
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- English
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