Oxyrhynchus: A City and Its Texts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780856981777)

The volume offers an account of Oxyrhynchus as an ancient city and archaeological site by surveying its material culture and art objects, including sculpture and draftsmanship, against the backdrop of the papyrus texts. It includes treatments of the site itself (city plan, topography, monuments, art architecture), the history of the excavations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as a synthesis of the study of the social, cultural and intellectual life under Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule. Original contributions by E.G. Turner and W.M.F. Petrie are reprinted; the original archaeological reports are edited with noted.

Author: A. K. Bowman
ISBN-10: 085698177X
ISBN-13: 9780856981777
Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2007
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 10.16h x 7.51w x 1.55d