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ROME IN EGYPT’S EASTERN DESERT Volume One & Volume Two HÉLÈNE CUVIGNY Edited by ROGER S. BAGNALL

Volume One $75.00 • 322 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1064-2 Volume Two $75.00 • 313 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1069-7 Two-Volume Set $135.00 • 635 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1061-1

Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The excavations that she has directed have uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some of these are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but almost entirely in French. All of the contributions have been translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography and in some cases significantly rewritten by the author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered in the intervening time and subsequent publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before. This book brings together thirty years of detailed study of this material, conjuring in vivid detail the lived experience of those who inhabited these forts—often through their own expressive language—and the realia of desert geography, military life, sex, religion, quarry operations, and imperial administration in the Roman world.

Hélène Cuvigny is Research Director at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)and a papyrologist specializing in the easternEgyptian desert during the Roman period. Professor Cuvigny is the lead investigator for the research program “Ostraca of the eastern desert” at the Institute of Papyrology of the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is author, co-author, and editor of many books including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East.

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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. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration.

$85.00 • 230 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0176-3

Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Alexander Jones is Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

THE HOUSE OF SERENOS Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) CLEMENTINA CAPUTO This is the fifth volume to appear in the Amheida series, which is dedicated to the archaeology of Amheida (ancient Trimithis) and its satellites in the Dakhla oasis of Egypt.

This volume collects and analyzes the ceramic remains from the so-called “House of Serenos,” a late antique, élite residence excavated between 2004 and 2007. In addition to a full catalog, this volume relates the pottery recovered to the archaeological stratigraphy and architectural history of the house and offers an interpretation of the remains $85.00 • 652 Pages with respect to the domestic and economic life of its Cloth • 978-1-4798-0301-9 residents, including discussions of cooking, banqueting, and the place of ceramics in the management of a complex agricultural economy in which they 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). 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 (Eastern Desert). nyupress.org/institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world/

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

$55.00 • 256 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-8922-8

$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.

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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

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1 ROGER S. BAGNALL and GIOVANNI R. RUFFINI

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

AMHEIDA II

A Late Romano-Egyptian House in Dakleh Oasis: Amheida House B2 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. nyupress.org/institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world/

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