Christina Riggs - The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

ROMAN EGYPT

Map of Egypt in the Roman Period, showing key sites mentioned in the text.

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by

CHRISTINA RIGGS

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CHRISTINA RIGGS

FRIEDERIKE HERKLOTZ

KATHERINE BLOUIN

MATT GIBBS

ANDREA JRDENS

RUDOLF HAENSCH

STEFAN PFEIFFER

MARJORIE S. VENIT

LAURENS E. TACOMA

PENELOPE WILSON

PAOLA DAVOLI

ADAM AJTAR

DONALD M. BAILEY

KATJA LEMBKE

T. G. WILFONG

ANDREA JRDENS

KATELIJN VANDORPE

ANDREW HARKER

MYRTO MALOUTA

WALTER SCHEIDEL

DAVID FRANKFURTER

JACCO DIELEMAN

MARTINA MINAS-NERPEL

MARTIN ANDREAS STADLER

GALLE TALLET

MARTIN BOMMAS

GALLE TALLET AND CHRISTIANE ZIVIE-COCHE

MARTIN ANDREAS STADLER

MALCOLM CHOAT

MARK DEPAUW

ARTHUR VERHOOGT

T. V. EVANS

AMIN BENAISSA

FRIEDHELM HOFFMANN

DAVID KLOTZ

MALCOLM CHOAT

MARIA CANNATA

BARBARA E. BORG

SANDRA SANDRI

JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER

BEATRIX GESSLER-LHR

MOLLY SWETNAM-BURLAND

IAN C. RUTHERFORD

OLAF E. KAPER

JENNIFER GATES-FOSTER

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Donald M. Bailey, formerly a curator in the Greek and Roman Department of the British Museum.

Amin Benaissa, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Katherine Blouin, Assistant Professor in Greek and Roman History, University of Toronto.

Martin Bommas, Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Curator of the Eton Myers Collection, University of Birmingham.

Barbara E. Borg, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter.

Maria Cannata is a specialist in Demotic, who has taught most recently at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Malcolm Choat, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History and member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Paola Davoli, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce), co-director of the archaeological mission at Dime (Soknopaiou Nesos), and archaeological director at Amheida, Dakhla Oasis, New York University.

Mark Depauw, Associate Professor in the Research Unit for Ancient History at the Katholieke University, Leuven, and director of the interdisciplinary online platform Trismegistos.

Jacco Dieleman, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

T. V. Evans, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History and member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney.

David Frankfurter, Professor of Religion and Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University.

Jennifer Gates-Foster, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Beatrix Gessler-Lhr, Research Associate at the Egyptological Institute, Heidelberg University.

Matt Gibbs, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Rudolf Haensch, Scientific Director of the Kommission fr Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik at the German Archaeological Institute, and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.

Andrew Harker, Teacher of Classics in Hertfordshire.

Friederike Herklotz, member of the Institut fr Klassische Philologie at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Friedhelm Hoffmann, Professor of Egyptology at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.

Andrea Jrdens, Professor of Papyrology at Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg.

Olaf E. Kaper, Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University, and member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project.

David Klotz, Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at Yale University.

Adam ajtar, Professor of Greek epigraphy and papyrology at the University of Warsaw.

Katja Lembke, Director of the Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover.

Myrto Malouta, Lecturer in Papyrology at the Ionian University, Corfu.

Martina Minas-Nerpel, Reader in Egyptology at Swansea University and co-director of the joint SwanseaLeuven mission to Shanhur.

Stefan Pfeiffer, Professor for the Ancient World and Europe at Chemnitz Technological University.

Christina Riggs, Lecturer in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia.

Ian C. Rutherford, Professor of Greek at the University of Reading.

Sandra Sandri, Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut fr gyptologie und Altorientalistik at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Martin Andreas Stadler, Heisenberg Professor for Ancient Egyptian Cultural History in Ptolemaic-Roman Times at the Julius Maximilians University, Wrzburg.

Molly Swetnam-Burland, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, Virginia.

Laurens E. Tacoma, Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University.

Galle Tallet, Assistant Professor in Greek History at the University of Limoges and director of the archaeological excavations at el-Deir, Kharga Oasis.