1. Greco-Roman Households in Pharaonic Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Note on Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology of Dwelling 1
7. Part I Households in Spatial Context: Settlements, Neighborhoods, and Urbanism
8. 1. Egyptian Houses in Their Urban and Environmental Contexts: Some Case Studies of the Roman and Late Roman Periods 47
9. 2. Neighborhood Networks: The Civic and Social Organization of Accessways in Ancient Karanis 71
10. 3. The Tower Houses of the Hellenistic Period: A Solution to the Urban Pressure within Egyptian Towns and Villages 92
11. Part II Households in Social Context: Families, Individuals, and Communities
12. 4. The Papyrus Trail: Houses and Households in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt 123
13. 5. Habitatio: Transfer of Houses and Rights of Residence in Roman Egypt 145
14. 6 Unsafe Houses in Greco-Roman Egypt: Forms and Locations of Violence 159
15. Part III Households in Practice: Production, Consumption, and Discard
16. 7. Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages 179
17. 8. Domestic Discard: The Making and Unmaking of Romano-Egyptian Houses 199
18. Part IV Households in Cosmic Context: Religion and Ritual
19. 9. Figurines and the Material Culture of Domestic Religion 227
20. 10. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt: Perspectives from the “Magical” Corpus 255
21. Part V Expanding the Household: Dwelling Practices in Monastic and Military Contexts
22. 11. Three Monks and a House: The Archaeology of Monastic Houses in Byzantine Egypt 271
23. 12. Domestic Activities in Alternative Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi’r Samut, Egypt 297
24. Afterwords: Perspectives from Pharaonic Egypt and the Greco-Roman World
25. 1. Greco-Roman Households in Pharaonic Perspective 321
26. 2. Contextualizing Houses, Households, and Homes in the Classical World and Beyond 332
27. Index 343