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02670aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 97AE154C403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 190827t20202020enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198835318 020 $a 0198835310 035 $a (OCoLC)1113455344 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a f-ua--- 050 00 $a DT93 $b .L35 2020 082 04 $a 932/.022 $2 23 100 1 $a Langellotti, Micaela, $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Village life in Roman Egypt : $b Tebtunis in the First Century AD / $c Micaela Langellotti. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 288 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index. 520 8 $a This book presents the first detailed study of Tebtunis, a village in Egypt within the Roman Empire, in the first century AD. It is founded on the archive material of the local notarial office, or grapheion, which was run by a man named Kronion for most of the mid-first century. The archive, unparalleled in antiquity, includes over two hundred documents written on papyrus which attest a wide range of transactions made by the villagers over defined periods of time, in particular the years AD 42 and 45-7 under the reign of the emperor Claudius. This evidence provides a unique insight into various aspects of village life: the level of participation in the written contractual economy; the socio-economic stratification of the village, including the position of women, slaves, priests, and the role of the elite; the functions of associations; the types and importance of agriculture; and non-agricultural activities. This multitude of data reveals a highly diversified village economy, a large involvement in written transactions among all the strata of the population, and a rural society living mostly above subsistence level. Tebtunis provides a model of village society that can be used to understand the majority of the population within the Roman Empire who lived outside cities in the Mediterranean, particularly in the other eastern and more Hellenized provinces. 651 0 $a Egypt $x Antiquities, Roman. 651 0 $a Egypt $x Civilization $y 332 B.C.-638 A.D. 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Classical antiquities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863445 651 7 $a Egypt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208755 648 7 $a 332 B.C.-638 A.D. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013319.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=97AE154C403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search