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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

Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the von Bothmer Publication Fund of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University.

Copyright © 2023 by Cornell University

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2023 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: “Better to Dwell in Your Own Small House”: Households of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in Context (Conference) (2018 : Cornell University) | Barrett, Caitlín E., editor. | Carrington, Jennifer, 1987–editor.

Title: Households in context : dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / edited by Caitlín Eilís Barrett and Jennifer Carrington.

Other titles: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023. | This volume publishes the proceedings of a two-day international conference at Cornell University, “‘Better to Dwell in Your Own Small House’: Households of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in Context” (April 27–April 28, 2018), organized jointly by the current co-editors, Caitlín Barrett and Jennifer Carrington. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023015808 (print) | LCCN 2023015809 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501771309 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501772597 (epub) | ISBN 9781501772603 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Household archaeology—Egypt— Congresses. | Households—Egypt—History—Congresses. | Social archaeology—Egypt—Congresses. | Dwellings—Egypt—History—Congresses. | Egypt—History— Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.–640 A.D.—Congresses.

Classification: LCC DT92 .B477 2023 (print) | LCC DT92 (ebook) | DDC 932—dc23/eng/20230523

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023015808

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023015809

Cover photo: Remains of a domestic structure at Karanis (modern Kom Aushim), Egypt. Photo by Bethany Simpson, Northern Fayyum Lakeshore Project.

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