Friday, October 28, 2022

Review of Hope & Bowen, Kellis

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Kellis: a Roman-period village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis
Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen, Kellis: a Roman-period village in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780521190329 £105,00.

Review by
Robert J. Littman, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. littman@hawaii.edu

... The neglected site of Kellis, a village in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Western Desert, dating from the first to the fourth centuries CE, has proven to be a treasure trove of data and artifacts about Roman Egypt. ...

For PaleoJudaica posts on the important site of Kellis, see here and links. Cross-file under Coptic Watch.

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