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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

Contributors

  • Youssri Abdelwahed, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Minia University
  • Richard Alston, Professor of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University
  • Anna Lucille Boozer, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • Jennifer Carrington, PhD alumna, Department of Classics, Cornell University
  • Paola Davoli, Professor of Egyptology, University of Salento (Lecce)
  • David Frankfurter, William Goodwin Aurelio Chair of the Appreciation of Scripture, Department of Religion, Boston University
  • Jennifer Gates-Foster, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Melanie Godsey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, Texas Tech University
  • Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
  • Sabine R. Huebner, Professor of Ancient History, University of Basel
  • Gregory Marouard, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
  • Miriam Müller, University Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology, Art, and Material Culture, Leiden University
  • Lisa Nevett, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
  • Bérangère Redon, Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Laboratoire HiSoMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques)
  • Bethany Simpson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Ross I. Thomas, Curator, Department of Greece and Rome, The British Museum
  • Dorothy J. Thompson, Newton Trust Lecturer (emerita), Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Figure 0.1. Participants in the 2018 conference stand together in four rows on steps outside a brick building on the Cornell University campus.

Figure 0.1. Participants in the 2018 conference “Better to Dwell in Your Own Small House”: Households of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in Context (Cornell University, April 27–April 28, 2018). Bottom row (from left): Jennifer Carrington, Dorothy J. Thompson, Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Liam Benjamin Zarzycki Barrett (in utero), Dana Bardolph, Youssri Abdelwahed. Second row (from left): Gregory Marouard, Bethany Simpson, Anna Lucille Boozer, Lillian Rose Boozer-Velasco (in utero), Miriam Müller, Melanie Godsey. Third row (from left): Sabine Huebner, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Lisa Nevett. Top row (from left): Jennifer Gates-Foster, Ross I. Thomas, Richard Alston. Not pictured: Paola Davoli, David Frankfurter, and Bérangère Redon, who did not participate in the conference, and Jonathan Boyarin, Adam Smith, and Astrid Van Oyen, who participated as discussants. (Photograph by Elizabeth Proctor.)

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