Chapter 39 Χίλωμα = Haversack

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PART IV MILITARY RATIONS
4. 19 A receipt for military rations in exchange for payment of publica 325
5. 20 The monthly ration of a cavalryman and his horse according to an ostracon from the praesidium of Dios 337
6. 21 An unrecognized type of military administrative document: the order for payment of frumentum praeteritum (O.Claud. inv. 7235 and Ch.L.A. XVIII 662) 355
7. PART V BUSINESS AND PROSTITUTION
8. 22 Conductor praesidii 367
9. 23 Quintana, a woman transformed into a tax 375
10. 24 Rotating women: remarks on prostitution in the Roman garrisons of the Desert of Berenike 379
11. 25 “Me too” in the praesidia, or when reality meets theatrical fiction 389
12. Part VI Desert Dwellers
13. Chapter 26 Kinaidokolpitai in a Greek ostracon from the Eastern Desert 397
14. Chapter 27 Papyrological evidence on “Barbarians” in the Egyptian Eastern Desert 415
15. Chapter 28 Public post, military intelligence, and dry cisterns: the letters of Diourdanos to Archibios, curator Claudiani 439
16. PART VII RELIGION AND MAGIC
17. Chapter 29 Twilight of a god: the decline of the cult of Pan in the Eastern Desert 465
18. Chapter 30 A soldier of the cohors I Lusitanorum at Didymoi: once again on the inscription I.Kanaïs 59bis 473
19. Chapter 31 The shrine in the praesidium of Dios (Eastern Desert of Egypt): graffiti and oracles in context 479
20. Chapter 32 The prefect of Egypt demobilizes some overage men and imposes a preventive “seal” (tattoo?) 527
21. Chapter 33 “The wheat for the Jews” (O.KaLa. inv. 228) 539
22. Chapter 34 The oldest representation of Moses, drawn by a Jew around ad 100 545
23. PART VIII LANGUAGE
24. Chapter 35 Πλήρωμα in the identification of soldiers in the navy 557
25. Chapter 36 Remarks on the use of ἴδιος in the epistolary prescript 561
26. Chapter 37 Πέμπειν/ἀγοράζειν τῆς τιμῆς in Greek letters from Egypt 571
27. Chapter 38 The names of cabbage in the Greek ostraca from the Eastern Desert: κράμβη, κραμβίον, καυλίον 577
28. Chapter 39 Χίλωμα = Haversack 585
29. Chapter 40 “When Heroïs has given birth . . .” ἐάν = ὅταν in temporal clauses referring to the future 591
30. CONCLUSION
31. Chapter 41 Are ostraca soluble in history? 597
32. Abbreviations 617
33. Bibliography 621
34. Indexes
35. 1. Sources 639
36. 2. Persons 641
37. 3. Places and ethnic names 643
38. 4. Greek and Latin words 647
39. 5. Subjects 652