A City and Its Texts
Edición de la obra Oxyrhynchus
| Autor | N. Gonis, D. Obbink, A. K. Bowman, P. J. Parsons, R. A. Coles |
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| Editorial | Egypt Exploration Society, Published for the Arts and Humanities Research Council by the Egypt Exploration Society |
| Fecha de publicación | 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés, grc |
| Páginas | 407 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780856981777 |
| OCLC | 222146787 |
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"The volume offers an account of Oxyrhynchus [Bahnasā] 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 [sic]"--