Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum

by H Verreth, W Clarysse, K Vandorpe

The Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settled here. When villages on the outskirts were abandoned about AD 300-400, houses and cemeteries remained intact for centuries. Here were found thousands of papyri, ostraca (potsherds) and hundreds of mummy portraits, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042931620
• ISBN13: 9789042931626
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 11.6"