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in their archaeological context and to combine information provided by texts
connected to each other. None of the ostraca published in this volume could
have fully been understood in isolation. Taken together, they provide a vivid
picture of the techniques, working procedures and everyday life at the quarries
of Mons Claudianus during the second century AD.
The excellent quality of scholarship and the high quality of printing and
reproductions make this book a valuable contribution to the international efforts for publishing the vast material found in recent years at Mons Claudianus
(over 9,000 ostraca so far) and for reconstructing the history of this area of the
Eastern Desert during the Roman period.
University of Athens1
Amphilochios Papathomas
1 The present as well as the preceding review of MPER 29-30 were written in the
framework of an Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg.
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