TY - BOOK ID - 49622145 TI - The Great Oasis of Egypt : the Kharga and Dakhla Oases in antiquity AU - Bagnall, Roger S. AU - Tallet, Gaëlle PY - 2019 SN - 9781108482165 1108482163 9781108593274 9781108742337 1108581501 1108593275 1108625347 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Antiquities. KW - Kharga (Egypt : Oasis) KW - Dakhla Oasis (Egypt) KW - Egypt KW - Antiquities KW - Oases KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Al-Kharijah (Egypt : Oasis) KW - El Kharga (Egypt : Oasis) KW - Great Oasis (Egypt) KW - Khargeh (Egypt : Oasis) KW - Kharijah (Egypt : Oasis) KW - Outer Oases (Egypt) KW - Wāḥāt al-Khārijah (Egypt : Oasis) KW - al-Dakhilah (Egypt) KW - Dakhilah Oasis (Egypt) KW - Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt) KW - ed Dakhla (Egypt) KW - el Dakhla (Egypt) KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49622145 AB - The Great Oasis of Egypt provides the first full study of the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in antiquity, written by participants in several of the current archaeological projects in this region. The oases were closely tied to Egypt and to each other, but not always easy to control, and their agricultural productivity varied with climatic conditions. The book discusses the oases' geology, water resources, history, administration, economy, trade connections, taxation, urbanism, religion, burial practices, literary culture, and art. New evidence for human health and illness from the cemeteries is presented along with a synthesis on the use of different types of cloth in burial. A particular emphasis is placed on pottery, with its ability to tell us both about how people lived and how far imports and exports can be seen from the shapes and fabrics, and both literature and art suggest full participation in the culture of Greco-Roman Egypt. ER -