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"The House of Serenos: Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) is a comprehensive catalog and analysis of the ceramic finds from the late antique house of a local notable and adjacent streets in Amheida. It is the fifth book in the Amheida series. Amheida is located in the western part of the Dakhla oasis, 3.5 km south of the medieval town of El-Qasr. Known in Hellenistic and Roman times as Trimithis, Amheida became a polis by 304 CE and was a major administrative center of the western part of the oasis for the whole of the fourth century. The home's owner was one Serenos, a member of the municipal elite and a Trimithis city councillor, as we know from documents found in the house. His house is particularly well preserved with respect to floor plan, relationship to the contemporary urban topography, and decoration, including domestic display spaces plastered and painted with subjects drawn from Greek mythology and scenes depicting the family that owned the house. The archaeology from the site also reveals the ways in which the urban space changed over time, as Serenos's house was built over and expanded into some previously public spaces. The house was probably abandoned around or soon after 370 CE. The pottery analyzed here both helps to refine the relationship of the archaeological layers belonging to the élite house and those below it, and to shed light on the domestic and economic life of the household and region, from cooking and dining to the management of a complex agricultural economy in which ceramics were the most common form of container for basic commodities. The book will primarily be of interest to specialists interested in ceramology, Roman Egypt, and the material culture, social history, and economy of late antiquity"--

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquities. --- Amheida Site (Egypt) --- Trimithis (Extinct city) --- Dakhla Oasis (Egypt) --- House of Serenos at Trimithis. --- Amheida (Égypte : Site archéologique) --- Trimithis (Ville ancienne) --- Egypt --- Pottery, Egyptian --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Dwellings --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- al-Dakhilah (Egypt) --- Dakhilah Oasis (Egypt) --- Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt) --- ed Dakhla (Egypt) --- el Dakhla (Egypt) --- Trimethis (Extinct city) --- Antiquities

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This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. This is the second volume of ostraka from the excavations Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Egypt. It adds 491 items to the growing corpus of primary texts from the site. In addition to the catalog, the introductory sections make important contributions to understanding the role of textual practice in the life of a pre-modern small town. Issues addressed include tenancy, the administration of water, governance, the identification of individuals in the archaeological record, the management of estates, personal handwriting, and the uses of personal names. Additionally, the chapter "Ceramic Fabrics and Shapes” by Clementina Caputo breaks new ground in the treatment of these inscribed shards as both written text and physical object. This volume will be of interest to specialists in Roman-period Egypt as well as to scholars of literacy and writing in the ancient world and elsewhere.

Ostraka --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Written communication --- Greek language --- Egyptian language --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Greek inscriptions --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Demotic inscriptions --- Egyptian inscriptions --- Hieratic inscriptions --- Hieroglyphic inscriptions (Egyptian) --- Inscriptions, Demotic --- Inscriptions, Hieratic --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic (Egyptian) --- Trimithis (Extinct city) --- Amheida Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Trimethis (Extinct city) --- Social life and customs --- Antiquities