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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
September 2021 400 pages • 6 x 9 6 black & white illustrations Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9781479806195
Ancient History
ANCIENT TAXATION
The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective Edited by JONATHAN VALK and IRENE SOTO MARÍN
A collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world
The studies collected in Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective explore the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. The contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy (taxing goods vs. labor, in-kind vs. money taxes, etc.), assessment and collection, compliance, and negotiating the cooperation of social, economic, and political élites and other important social groups. In assembling a broad range of studies, this book sheds new light on the commonalities and differences between ancient taxation systems, and so on the broader fiscal and institutional practices of antiquity.
Jonathan Valk is University Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Leiden. Irene Soto Marín is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Curator in the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan.
AN OASIS CITY
ROGER S. BAGNALL, NICOLA ARAVECCHIA, RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE, PAOLA DAVOLI, OLAF E. KAPER, and SUSANNA McFADDEN
Located in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, Amheida (ancient Trimithis) was an important regional center, reaching a peak in the Roman period. Excavations have revealed its urban layout and brought to light houses, streets, a bath, a school, and a church. Wall-paintings, temple reliefs, pottery, and texts all give a lively sense of its political, religious, economic, and cultural life. This book presents these aspects of the city’s existence and its close ties to the Nile valley, by way of long desert roads, in an accessible and richly illustrated fashion.
February 2016 256 pages • 6 x 9 16 black & white illustrations 128 color illustrations Cloth • $55.00X(£44.00) 9781479889228
Ancient History
Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at ISAW. Nicola Aravecchia is Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University in Saint Louis. Raffaella Cribiore is Professor of Classics at NYU. Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce). Olaf Kaper is Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University. Susanna McFadden is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Hong Kong.
THE HOUSE OF SERENOS, PART II
Archaeological Report on a Late-Roman Urban House at Trimithis (Amheida VI)
PAOLA DAVOLI
with a contribution by NICHOLAS WARNER
A comprehensive study of the archaeology of the House of Serenos
The House of Serenos, Part II is the second of four books devoted to publishing the archaeology of the House of Serenos, a richly decorated, late antique villa of a local élite, located in Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The House of Serenos, Part II synthesizes the archaeological information presented in detail in other volumes in a comprehensive study of the architectural and archaeological history of the house and its relationship to its natural and built environments, from construction through expansion and renovation to its eventual abandonment around the end of the fourth century. The volume includes discussions of archaeological method, stratigraphy, architecture, and the archaeological assemblages discovered in the House of Serenos—and reveals what all this can tell us about the inhabitants and their experience living in this high-status residence at the edge of the Roman Empire.
Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce). Nicholas Warner is a trained architect who has worked extensively on the preservation and presentation of Egyptian sites of all periods including Historic Cairo, Old Cairo, the Red and White Monasteries in Sohag, tombs in Luxor, and the New Kingdom Necropolis at Saqqara.
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