The Great Oasis of Egypt - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-xi

Tables

pp xii-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xvii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Living in the Oasis: Humans and the Environment

pp 15-80

2 - Water Resources and Irrigation in Two Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Kharga and Dakhla

pp 17-29

3 - The Ancient Population of the Kharga Oasis

pp 30-45

4 - Trimithis: A Case Study of Proto-Byzantine Urbanism

pp 46-80

Part II - Managing the Oasis

pp 81-132

5 - The Great Oasis: An Administrative Entity from Pharaonic Times to Roman Times

pp 83-104

6 - Land and Resource Administration: Farmers, Managers, and Soldiers in the Great Oasis

pp 105-121

7 - What Remains in the Hands of the Gods: Taxation in Kharga Oasis through the Demotic Ostraca (Fifth Century BC to First Century AD)

pp 122-132

Part III - Trade and Mobility in a Connected Environment

pp 133-216

8 - The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS): Surveying the Tracks between the Two Oases

pp 135-151

9 - And the Potsherds? Some Avenues of Reflection and Synthesis on the Pottery of the Great Oasis

pp 152-167

10 - Egyptian and Imported Amphoras at Amheida

pp 168-191

11 - Kegs from Amheida

pp 192-200

12 - El-Deir as a Switching Point

pp 201-216

Part IV - An Oasis Culture?

pp 217-296

13 - Temple Building on the Egyptian Margins: The Geopolitical Issues behind Seti II and Ramesses IX’s Activity at Amheida

pp 221-236

14 - Funerary Practices in the Great Oasis during Antiquity

pp 237-268

15 - Was There an Interest in Literary Culture in the Great Oasis? Some Answers

pp 269-280

16 - The House of Serenos and Wall Painting in the Western Oases

pp 281-296

Bibliography

pp 297-333

Index of ancient people

pp 334-335