Mons Claudianus. Ostraca Graeca et Latina

This is a catalogue of the ostraca found at the fort of Umm Hussein during French excavations at Mons Claudianous on the West bank of the Red Sea in Egypt. The archaeological context of the finds, in deposits both inside and outside the camp, is described. The chapters then treat the inscriptions by theme: Death and disease (Hélène Cuvigny); The correspondence of Dioscorus and others (Adam Buelow-Jacobsen); The correspondence of Petenephotes (Adam Buelow-Jacobsen); Lettres privées provenant de Raïma (Jean Bingen); Tableaux de service (Hélène Cuvigny); List of Vigiles (Adam Buelow-Jacobsen); Correspondance militaire (Wilfried Van Rengen); Listes de soldats (François Kayser) and School Exercises: Verse and Prose (Walter Cockle). Fully illustrated with Greek index.