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AMHEIDA V The House of Serenus, Part I: The Pottery CLEMENTINA CAPUTO Amheida is located in the western part of the Dakhla oasis, 3.5 km south of the medieval town of El-Qasr. Known in Hellenistic and Roman times as Trimithis, Amheida became a polis by 304 CE and was a major administrative center of the western part of the oasis for the whole of the fourth century. The home’s owner was one Serenos, a member of the municipal elite and a Trimithis city councillor, as we know from documents found in the house.

His house is particularly well preserved with respect to floor plan, relationship to the contemporary urban topography, and decoration, including domestic display spaces plastered and painted with subjects drawn from Greek mythology and scenes depicting the family that owned the house. The archaeology from the site also reveals the ways in which the urban space changed over time, as Serenos’s house built over and expanded into some previously public spaces. The house was probably abandoned around or soon after 370 CE. The pottery analyzed here both helps to refine the relationship of the archaeological layers belonging to the élite house and those below it, and to shed light on the domestic and economic life of the household and region, from cooking and dining to the management of a complex agricultural economy in which ceramics were the most common form of container for basic commodities.

The book will primarily be of interest to specialists interested ceramology, Roman Egypt, and the material culture, social history, and economy of late antiquity. It is the fifth book in the Amheida series.

Clementina Caputo holds a PhD from the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy).

Between 2016 and 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Ruprecht-KarlsUniversität Heidelberg in Germany. Her main research area is the ceramic material culture of Egypt between the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. Currently, she is the ceramologist for the Archaeological Missions at Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime (Fayum), Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), Plinthine (North of Lake Mariout), Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt), and Berenike (Desert Oriental).

Forthcoming Spring 2020 $85.00 • 652 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0301-9

MATHEMATICS, METROLOGY, AND MODEL CONTRACTS A Codex From Late Antique Business Education Edited by ROGER S. BAGNALL and ALEXANDER JONES Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts.

Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete Roger S. Bagnall is Emeritus Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and is author, co-author, and editor of many model contracts, as well as historical combooks including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman mentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and East. vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration.

Alexander Jones is Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. His work centers on texts and artifacts relating to Greco-Roman mathematical sciences, their intellectual and social context, and their interconnections with scientific traditions in other cultures and periods.

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GRAFFITI FROM THE BASILICA IN THE AGORA OF SMYRNA Edited by ROGER S. BAGNALL, ROBERTA CASAGRANDE-KIM, AKIN ERSOY, and CUMHUR TANRIVER

AN OASIS CITY ROGER S. BAGNALL, NICOLA ARAVECCHIA, RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE, PAOLA DAVOLI, OLAF E. KAPER, and SUSANNA MCFADDEN

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$85.00 • 500 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-6464-5

An in-depth archaeological report featuring graffiti found during a recent excavation at the Ancient Greek city of Smyrna, including a complete and illustrated edition of all texts and dipinti.

ANCIENT JEWISH SCIENCES AND THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN SECOND TEMPLE LITERATURE Edited by JONATHAN BEN-DOV and SETH L. SANDERS

This richly illustrated book synthesizes the important archaeological and textual discoveries of the past decade, revealing the surprisingly vibrant political, religious, economic and cultural life of the oasis city of ancient Trimithis, complete with bathes, schools, wall-paintings, temples, and churches.

AKSUM AND NUBIA Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa GEORGE HATKE

$50.00 • 230 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8147-6066-6

$55.00 • 275 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-2304-8

A reassessment of the evidence and modalities of scientific thought in ancient Jewish texts, including the Dead Sea Scolls and the Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha.

This volume assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE.

AMHEIDA I

AMHEIDA II

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1

A Late Romano-Egyptian House in Dakleh Oasis: Amheida House B2

ROGER S. BAGNALL and GIOVANNI R. RUFFINI

$55.00 • 178 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8147-4526-7

ANNA LUCILLE BOOZER

$55.00 • 460 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-8034-8

A complete scholarly edition of 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s (ancient Trimithis) excavations at Amheida in the Dakleh Oasis of Egypt.

AMHEIDA III Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2 ROGER S. BAGNALL and RODNEY AST

$85.00 • 310 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-5374-8

The second volume of ostraka from the excavations Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Egypt, adding 491 texts. The analytical sections make important contributions to understanding the role of textual practice in Roman Egypt and the treatment of inscribed shards as both written texts and physical objects.

A comprehensive report and study of the excavations carried out at House B2 at Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010.

AIN EL-GEDIDA 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert NICOLA ARAVECCHIA

$85.00 • 652 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-0301-9

A systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at ‘Ain elGedida, a fourthcentury rural settlement in Egypt’s Dakleh Oasis uniquely important for the study of early Egyptian Christianity and previously known only from written sources.

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