In this dissertation, I extensively re-examine P. Mich. inv. 2958, a secondcentury-C.E. musical papyrus excavated by the University of Michigan at Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Fayum, Egypt in 1924. In contrast to pre-existing scholarly opinion, I argue that this musical papyrus c…
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The village Euhemeria, located in the Fayum region of Egypt, preserved a corpus of documents on papyri and ostraca from the first century of Roman rule. This thesis studies those documents as a group for the first time, and uses them to examine the question of how this small, ru…
This dissertation is a study of petitions concerning interpersonal violence from the first six centuries of Roman rule in Egypt (30 BC–c.540 AD). Through the study of violent conflict scholars can see how different parties are forced to come together to articulate problems and p…
Through a study of its natural environment and irrigation system, this dissertation investigates the evolution of the landscape of Egypt's Fayyum depression across sixteen centuries, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. From the evidence of Greek papyri, Arab…
The Flavii Apiones, owners of a large estate in Byzantine Egypt (fourth to seventh centuries), appear to become quite wealthy, yet the means by which they acquired that wealth is not always clear. Peter Sarris has argued that profit was derived from a category of land called the…