Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii Seiten, Seite 325-655)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781479810741
Series Statement:
ISAW Monographs
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- VOLUME 2 -- Part IV. Military Rations -- 19. A receipt for military rations in exchange for payment of publica -- 20. The monthly ration of a cavalryman and his horse according to an ostracon from the praesidium of Dios -- 21. An unrecognized type of military administrative document: the order for payment of frumentum praeteritum (O.Claud. inv. 7235 and Ch.L.A. XVIII 662) -- Part V. Business and Prostitution -- 22. Conductor praesidii -- 23. Quintana, a woman transformed into a tax -- 24. Rotating women: remarks on prostitution in the Roman garrisons of the Desert of Berenike -- 25. "Me too" in the praesidia, or when reality meets theatrical fiction -- Part VI. Desert Dwellers -- 26. Kinaidokolpitai in a Greek ostracon from the Eastern Desert -- 27. Papyrological evidence on "Barbarians" in the Egyptian Eastern Desert -- 28. Public post, military intelligence, and dry cisterns: the letters of Diourdanos to Archibios, curator Claudiani -- Part VII. Religion and Magic -- 29. Twilight of a god: the decline of the cult of Pan in the Eastern Desert -- 30. A soldier of the cohors I Lusitanorum at Didymoi: once again on the inscription I.Kanaïs 59bis -- 31. The shrine in the praesidium of Dios (Eastern Desert of Egypt): graffiti and oracles in context -- 32. The prefect of Egypt demobilizes some overage men and imposes a preventive "seal" (tattoo?) -- 33. "The wheat for the Jews" (O.KaLa. inv. 228) -- 34. The oldest representation of Moses, drawn by a Jew around AD 100 -- Part VIII. Language -- 35. Πλήρωμα in the identification of soldiers in the navy -- 36. Remarks on the use of ἴδιος in the epistolary prescript -- 37. Πέμπειν/ἀγοράζειν τῆς τιμῆς in Greek letters from Egypt -- 38. The names of cabbage in the Greek ostraca from the Eastern Desert: κράμβη, κραμβίον, καυλίον -- 39. Χίλωμα = Haversack.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781479810697
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cuvigny, Hélène Rome in Egypt's Eastern desert ; Volume 2 New York : New York University Press, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2021 ISBN 9781479810697
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Arabische Wüste
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Römerzeit
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Archäologische Stätte
;
Funde
;
Inschrift
Author information:
Bagnall, Roger S. 1947-
