At Home in Roman Egypt - A Social Archaeology

This book introduces both specialists and non-specialists to the lives of ordinary people in Roman Egypt. It explores the life course of these individuals by examining conception, childbirth, childhood, youth, adulthood, disability, religion, health, old age, death and the afterlife, among other themes.

List of contents

1. Homelife; 2. Settings and communities; 3. Conception, birth, and childhood; 4. Adulthood; 5. Making the home; 6. Caring for the body and constructing difference; 7. Religion, ritual, and magic; 8. Health, disability, and old age; 9. Death and the afterlife; 10. Homelife in Roman Egypt and beyond.

About the author

Anna Lucille Boozer is Professor of Roman Mediterranean Archaeology and Ancient History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt, Meroitic Sudan, empires, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and MAP: The Meroë Archival Project (Sudan). She has written widely on the social archaeology and history of Egypt and Sudan. Among her books are A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2 (2015) and Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (2020).

Summary

This book introduces both specialists and non-specialists to the lives of ordinary people in Roman Egypt. It explores the life course of these individuals by examining conception, childbirth, childhood, youth, adulthood, disability, religion, health, old age, death and the afterlife, among other themes.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Lucille Boozer, Anna Lucille (Bernard M. Baruch College Boozer, Boozer Anna Lucille
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108830928
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83092-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology