Description
Rich account of life over four centuries in a village of Roman Egypt incorporating recent archaeological and textual discoveries.
About the Author
COLIN A. HOPE is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Ancient Cultures at Monash University. He is a founding member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, for which he directs excavations at Kellis and Mut al-Kharab, and co-ordinates ceramic studies. He is also an authority on the archaeology of Egypt's Western Desert and Egyptian ceramics of the New Kingdom, and co-founded the archaeology programme at Monash University. GILLIAN E. BOWEN is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Ancient Cultures at Monash University. She is deputy director of excavations at Kellis, director of excavations at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, and numismatist for the Dakhleh Oasis Project. An authority on the archaeology of early Christian Egypt, she has published extensively and has excavated four fourth-century churches, including the earliest surviving purpose-built basilica.
Reviews
'This volume ... not only reports about the last four decades of scholarship, but also contributes to the further study of ancient Kellis in all its aspects.' Mattias Brand, Biblioteca Orientalis
Book Information
ISBN 9780521190329
Author Colin A. Hope
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1050g
Dimensions(mm) 251mm * 176mm * 34mm