Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Note
- Referencing Texts from Kellis
- Chronology
- Maps
- 1 Kellis in Context
- 2 Houses, Households, Household Activities
- 3 Paintings from Domestic Contexts
- 4 Crafts
- 5 Society and Social Structure
- 6 The Economy
- 7 The Administration of Kellis and Dakhleh Oasis
- 8 Literacy
- 9 The Pharaonic and Classical Religious Complexes and the Cult of Tutu
- 10 Painted Decoration in the Main Temple Complex
- 11 The Churches
- 12 Types of Christianity: History and Spread, Organisation, Practices and Literature
- 13 The Traditional Cemeteries of Kellis
- 14 Christian Burial Practices
- 15 Revealing Life through Death: A Review of the Bioarcheological Studies of Human Remains
- 16 The Abandonment of Kellis
- Appendix: Some Kellis Texts in Translation
- Bibliography
- Indices
2 - Houses, Households, Household Activities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Note
- Referencing Texts from Kellis
- Chronology
- Maps
- 1 Kellis in Context
- 2 Houses, Households, Household Activities
- 3 Paintings from Domestic Contexts
- 4 Crafts
- 5 Society and Social Structure
- 6 The Economy
- 7 The Administration of Kellis and Dakhleh Oasis
- 8 Literacy
- 9 The Pharaonic and Classical Religious Complexes and the Cult of Tutu
- 10 Painted Decoration in the Main Temple Complex
- 11 The Churches
- 12 Types of Christianity: History and Spread, Organisation, Practices and Literature
- 13 The Traditional Cemeteries of Kellis
- 14 Christian Burial Practices
- 15 Revealing Life through Death: A Review of the Bioarcheological Studies of Human Remains
- 16 The Abandonment of Kellis
- Appendix: Some Kellis Texts in Translation
- Bibliography
- Indices
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- KellisA Roman-Period Village in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis, pp. 15 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022