At Home in Roman Egypt

A Social Archaeology

Anna Lucille Boozer (Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York)

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Cambridge University Press
30 September 2021

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Archaeology; Egyptian archaeology & Egyptology

What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a 'life course' approach to the study of Roman Egypt and Egyptology more generally. Based on evidence drawn from objects, portraits, and letters, she focuses on the quotidian details that were most meaningful to those who lived during the centuries of Roman occupation. Boozer explores these individuals through each phase of the life cycle – from conception, childbirth, childhood, and youth, to adulthood and old age – and focuses on essential themes such as religion, health, disability, death, and the afterlife. Illuminating the lives of people forgotten by most historians, her richly illustrated volume also shows how ordinary people experienced and enacted social and cultural change.

By: Anna Lucille Boozer (Bernard M. Baruch College City University of New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 183mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9781108830928
ISBN 10: 1108830927
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 30 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Lucille Boozer is Professor of Roman Mediterranean Archaeology and Ancient History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt, Meroitic Sudan, empires, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and MAP: The Meroë Archival Project (Sudan). She has written widely on the social archaeology and history of Egypt and Sudan. Among her books are A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2 (2015) and Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (2020).

Reviews for At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology

'... a brief insight into life as was most likely experienced by a large majority of the Romano-Egyptian population ... the book is beautifully written and easily accessible to everyone.' Micaela Langellotti, Minerva