City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek lives in Roman Egypt / Peter Parsons.
City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek lives in Roman Egypt / Peter Parsons.
City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek lives in Roman Egypt / Peter Parsons.
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Publisher
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N932.022/1
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English
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Physical content
xxviii, 258 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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"In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a series of low sand-covered mounds a hundred miles south of Cairo, on a side-branch of the Nile. They turned out to be the rubbish-dumps of an administrative centre and thriving city at the time of the Roman Empire - Oxyrhynchos ('City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish') - inhabited by descendants of the Gree...
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City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek lives in Roman Egypt / Peter Parsons.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-248) and index.
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N932.022/1
Record Identifier
74VK7r74R8xZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7r74R8xZ
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ISBN
9780297645887 (hbk.)
0297645889 (hbk.)
DDC
932.022
MMS ID
991022846089702626
