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table of contents
  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. List of Contributors
  3. Note on Abbreviations
  4. Introduction: Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology of Dwelling
  5. Part I Households in Spatial Context: Settlements, Neighborhoods, and Urbanism
    1. 1. Egyptian Houses in Their Urban and Environmental Contexts: Some Case Studies of the Roman and Late Roman Periods
    2. 2. Neighborhood Networks: The Civic and Social Organization of Accessways in Ancient Karanis
    3. 3. The Tower Houses of the Hellenistic Period: A Solution to the Urban Pressure within Egyptian Towns and Villages
  6. Part II Households in Social Context: Families, Individuals, and Communities
    1. 4. The Papyrus Trail: Houses and Households in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
    2. 5. Habitatio: Transfer of Houses and Rights of Residence in Roman Egypt
    3. 6. Unsafe Houses in Greco-Roman Egypt: Forms and Locations of Violence
  7. Part III Households in Practice: Production, Consumption, and Discard
    1. 7. Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages
    2. 8. Domestic Discard: The Making and Unmaking of Romano-Egyptian Houses
  8. Part IV Households in Cosmic Context: Religion and Ritual
    1. 9. Figurines and the Material Culture of Domestic Religion
    2. 10. The Supernatural Vulnerabilities of Domestic Space in Late Antique Egypt: Perspectives from the “Magical” Corpus
  9. Part V Expanding the Household: Dwelling Practices in Monastic and Military Contexts
    1. 11. Three Monks and a House: The Archaeology of Monastic Houses in Byzantine Egypt
    2. 12. Domestic Activities in Alternative Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi’r Samut, Egypt
  10. Afterwords: Perspectives from Pharaonic Egypt and the Greco-Roman World
    1. 1. Greco-Roman Households in Pharaonic Perspective
    2. 2. Contextualizing Houses, Households, and Homes in the Classical World and Beyond
  11. Index

Figure 0.2. Map of Egypt in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.

Figure 0.2. Map of Egypt in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. (Created by Margaret Mathews; originally published as figure 1.1 in A. L. Boozer, Amheida II: A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis. Amheida House B2. New York: New York University Press, 2015). CC-BY.

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