Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781782976516
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illustrations +CD of photographs
Description:
This is the second volume on fourth century Coptic documents written on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman predecessor of the village of Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. It is concerned with 75 letters and associated household accounts and lists, mostly from House 3. The documents are transcribed and translated with commentary.