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UNINA9910792790303321 |
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Bagnall Roger S. |
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Amheida III : Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2 / / Roger S. Bagnall, Rodney Ast |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations |
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CaputoClementina |
CribioreRaffaella |
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Ostraka - Egypt - Trimithis (Extinct city) |
Inscriptions, Greek - Egypt - Trimithis (Extinct city) |
Inscriptions, Egyptian - Egypt - Trimithis (Extinct city) |
Written communication - Egypt - Trimithis (Extinct city) |
Greek language |
Egyptian language |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt - Amheida Site |
Trimithis (Extinct city) Social life and customs Sources |
Trimithis (Extinct city) |
Amheida Site (Egypt) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Note on Editorial Procedure -- Works Cited -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Archaeological Contexts -- 3. Ceramic Fabrics and Shapes -- 4. Wells -- 5. Tenants -- 6. The Circle of Serenos. Individuals from the period of Occupation of B1 -- 7. The Hand of Serenos -- 8. Government -- 9. Shortened Personal Names -- 10. Gena, Ploutogenes, and Louia: Traces of a local cult in the Dakhla Oasis? -- 11. Autourg(os) -- 1. Ostraka from Occupation Levels -- 2. Dumped Material -- 3. Mixed Material in DSU 60 and 93 -- 4. Ostraka from Area 4 -- Indexes -- Concordance -- Corrections to O.TRIM. 1 |
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This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the |
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excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. This is the second volume of ostraka from the excavations Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Egypt. It adds 491 items to the growing corpus of primary texts from the site. In addition to the catalog, the introductory sections make important contributions to understanding the role of textual practice in the life of a pre-modern small town. Issues addressed include tenancy, the administration of water, governance, the identification of individuals in the archaeological record, the management of estates, personal handwriting, and the uses of personal names. Additionally, the chapter "Ceramic Fabrics and Shapes” by Clementina Caputo breaks new ground in the treatment of these inscribed shards as both written text and physical object. This volume will be of interest to specialists in Roman-period Egypt as well as to scholars of literacy and writing in the ancient world and elsewhere. |
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UNINA9911018078703321 |
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Autore |
Arad Dotan |
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'Wisdom and Greatness in One Place' : The Alexandrian Trader Moses Ben Judah and His Circle |
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Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (552 pages) |
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Semitic Languages and Cultures Series ; ; v.37 |
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Jews - Social life and customs |
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The manuscript collections of the Bodleian Library contain a corpus of dozens of documents from the archive of Moses ben Judah. A leader of the Jewish community in Alexandria, he was also a prominent businessman and in contact with individuals from Cairo to Sicily. This collection of documents at the Bodleian likely did not emerge from the Cairo Genizah, but from another depository, and appears to have been buried at some point. The documents, which include letters and deeds, shed light on the world of the Jewish elite of a Mediterranean city at the end of the Middle Ages, their communal and business life, connections between Jewish communities, and intellectual trends and tastes among educated Jews. They improve our understanding of the lives of Alexandrian Jews in the late Middle Ages and provide new data about the local leadership and its relations with the Nagidate (the central Jewish leadership) in Cairo, the cantors, the poll tax and its effects, and more. We hear about tensions within this society and the growing presence of European (Italian, Greek, Iberian, and conversos) Jews within the complex social mosaic of Egyptian Jewry in the late Mamluk period. The documents inform us about Alexandria's Jewish community and the commercial networks of the Mediterranean world, in which Jews traded alongside Christians and Muslims. This volume makes an important contribution to the study of Judaeo-Arabic at a watershed |
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moment. Sources from the late Mamluk period show Judaeo-Arabic at a linguistic border between Classical and Late Judaeo-Arabic. The volume will therefore further readers' knowledge of historical linguistics of Arabic in general, and Judaeo-Arabic in particular. The phrase 'Wisdom and Greatness in One Place' in the title of the book is a quotation from the Babylonian Talmud (Giṭṭin 59a), the meaning of which is that it is rare to find combined in one man political leadership and intellectual pre-eminence. |
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