Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Original Publications of the Chapters -- Map of the Eastern Desert -- VOLUME 1 -- Introduction and Survey -- Introduction -- 1. A survey of place-names in the Egyptian Eastern Desert during the principate according to the ostraca and the inscriptions -- Part I. Senior Administrators -- 2. Ulpius Himeros, imperial procurator (I.Pan 53) -- 3. Sulpicius Serenus, procurator Augusti, and the titulature of the prefects of Berenike -- 4. Claudius Lucilianus, prefect of an ala and of Berenike
5. Vibius Alexandros, prefect and epistrategos of the Heptanomia -- 6. Procurator Montis -- Part II. The Quarries -- 7. Greek ostraca from Mons Claudianus, revisited -- 8. An inscription of an ergodótēs in a quarry at Mons Claudianus -- 9. The amount of the wages paid to the quarry-workers at Mons Claudianus -- 10. Two ostraca from Mons Claudianus: O.Bahria 20 and 21 -- 11. The organization chart of the personnel of an imperial quarry according to an ostracon of Mons Claudianus -- 12. A dedication to Zeus Helios Great Sarapis in honor of a desector on an ostracon from Mons Claudianus
Part III. The Road System and the Mail -- 13. An unpublished ostracon from the Eastern Desert and the provenance of O.Amst. 9 -- 14. Kaine, a new town: an experiment in familial reunification in the second century AD -- 15. The road system of the Eastern Desert of Egypt under the Early Empire in the light of the excavated ostraca -- 16. Collection of cases of irregularities in the transmission of official mail -- 17. The postal register of Turbo, curator of the praesidium of Xeron Pelagos -- 18. Men and gods in a network
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references.
Reproduction (note)
Electronic reproduction.
Language (note)
Translated from French.
Source of description (note)
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021).
Author
Cuvigny, Hélène, author.
Title
Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Volume 1 / Hélène Cuvigny ; edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall.
Publisher
New York : New York University Press, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2021.
Type of content
text
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Series
ISAW Monographs
ISAW monographs.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Language
Translated from French.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021).