New Texts from Ancient Cultures (Series)

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Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By Christopher Faraone & Sofia Torallas Tovar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Essays on the magical handbooks of Greco-Roman Egypt

Confiscation or Coexistence

Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus

By Andrew Connor
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A new interpretation of the administrative restructuring of lands held by temples in Roman Egypt

Ancient Latin Poetry Books

Materiality and Context

By Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Presents the first comprehensive study of the material aspects of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Latin secular poetry

Recording Village Life

A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt

By Jennifer Cromwell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

An engrossing study of literacy and the scribal economy at the village level
 

Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt

By Ryan McConnell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Economics, Archaeology, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A nuanced examination that illuminates the Apion estate’s economic structure and addresses how the family was able to generate such wealth
 

Honor Among Thieves

Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt

By Philip Venticinque
Subjects: Papyrology, Economics
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A consideration of transaction costs and associations in the ancient world

Materia Magica

The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain

By Andrew T. Wilburn
Subjects: Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Approaches ancient magical practice through archaeology and social history

New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection

Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines

By Cassandra Borges & C. Michael Sampson
Subjects: Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Three new fragments from amongst the oldest Greek papyri

Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt

The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus

By Todd Hickey
Subjects: Papyrology, History
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

The economic practices and theory of the Roman Empire, as seen through the lens of the estate of the Flavii Apiones

Women of Jeme

Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt

By Terry Wilfong
Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, History, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Brings to life the women of Jeme, a thriving Christian community in ancient Egypt

Settling a Dispute

Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt

By Traianos Gagos & Peter Van Minnen
Subjects: Classical Studies, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Family squabbles and fights over real estate were no less complex in sixth-century Egypt than they are in the modern world. In this volume Peter van Minnen and Traianos Gagos investigate just such a struggle

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