Karanis Bibliography

NOTE: This annotated bibliography is designed to provide information about the history and archaeology of the site of Karanis. Although most of the bibliography for the University of Michigan 1924-35 excavation of Karanis is incorporated, we are still adding information on other excavations of the site, analyses and syntheses of the material from the exacavations and major groups of published texts from the site. So the bibliography should be taken as "work in progress."
--Terry G. Wilfong

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Allen, F. 1947. Ports and Happy Havens. London: Frederick Muller. [Anecdotal account of Karanis excavation on pp. 89-110].
Allen, M. L. 1985. "The Terracotta Figurines from Karanis: A Study of Technique, Style and Chronology in Fayoumic Coroplastics." 3 volumes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Ph. D. Dissertation.
Amundsen, L. 1935. Greek Ostraca in the University of Michigan Collection: Part I, Texts. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, vol. 34. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ["Ostraca from Karanis", pp. 33-181]
Auth, Susan. 1989. [Karanis objects]. In: Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A. D., ed. Florence D. Friedman. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. [Exhibition catalogue]
Bietak, M. 1970. Karanis. Archiv für Orientforschung 23:208.
Boak, A. E. B. 1933. Karanis: The Temple, Coin Hoards, Botanical and Zoölogical Reports, Seasons 1924-31. University of Michigan Humanistic Series, vol. 30. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Boak, A. E. B., and E. E. Peterson. 1931. Karanis: Topographical and Architectural Report of Excavations During the Seasons 1924-28. University of Michigan Humanistic Series, vol. 25. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Boak, A. E. R. and H. C. Youtie. 1960. The Archive of Aurelius Isidorus in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and the University of Michigan (P.Cair.Isidor.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Archive found at Karanis around 1923]
Butler, O. M. 1930. Report of the Museum of Classical Archaeology 1928-1929 (Reprinted from the Report of the President of the University of Michigan, 1928-1929). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Report on Karanis excavations prepared for University of Michigan President]
El-Nassery, S. A. A. 1975. "A New Roman Hoard from Karanis." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 75:183-202
El-Nassery, S. A. A., G. Wagner, and G. Castel. 1976. "Un grand bain gréco-romain à Karanis: Fouilles de l'Université du Caire (1972-75)." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 76:231-275
Gazda, E. K. 1978. Guardians of the Nile: Sculptures from Karanis in the Fayoum (c. 250 BC-AD 450). Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. [Exhibition catalogue]
Gazda, E. K. 1983. Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times. Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935). Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. [Exhibition catalogue]
Geremek, H. 1969. Karanis: Communauté rurale de l'Égypte Romaine au IIe-IIIe siècle de notre ère. Archiwum Filologiczne, vol. 17. Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
Goodspeed, E. J. 1902. "Papyri from Karanis." Studies in Classical Philology 3:1-66. [Papyri now in the Joseph Regenstein Library, Special Collections, University of Chicago]
Grenfell, B. P., A. S. Hunt, D. G. Hogarth and J. G. Milne. 1900. Fayûm Towns and their Papyri. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. [Includes papyri and account of survey of Karanis ("Kom Oushim")]
Haatvedt, R. A., and Peterson, E. E. 1964. Coins from Karanis: The University of Michigan Excavations 1924-1935. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Haeckl, A. E. and K. C. Spelman. 1977. The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. [Exhibition catalogue including Karanis objects]
Harden, D. B. 1936. Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29. University of Michigan Humanistic Series, vol. 41. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Higashi, E. L. 1990. "Conical Glass Vessels from Karanis: Function and Meaning in a Pagan/Christian Context in Rural Egypt." 2 volumes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Ph. D. Dissertation.
Hussain, A. G. 1983. "Magnetic Prospecting for Archaeology in Kom Oshim and Kiman Fares, Fayum, Egypt." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 110:36-51.
Husselman, E. M. 1952. "The Granaries of Karanis." Transactions of the American Philological Association 83:56-73.
Husselman, E. M. 1953. "The Dovecotes of Karanis." Transactions of the American Philological Association 84:81-91.
Husselman, E. M., 1971. Papyri from Karanis, Third Series (Michigan Papyri, Vol. IX). American Philological Association Monograph 29. n.p.: American Philological Association.
Husselman, E. M. 1979. Karanis Excavations of the University of Michigan in Egypt 1928-1935: Topography and Architecture. A Summary of the Reports of the Director, Enoch E. Peterson. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Studies, vol. 5. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Johnson. B. 1981. Pottery From Karanis: Excavations of the University of Michigan. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Studies, vol. 7. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Kelsey, F. W. 1927. "Fouilles américaines a Kom Osim (Fayoum)." Chronique d'Égypte 5:78-9.
Lewis, N. 1967. Greek Papyri in the Collection of New York University I: Fourth Century Documents from Karanis. New York University Department of Classics, Monographs on Mediterranean Antiquity. Leiden: E. J. Brill
Maguire, E. D., H. P. Maguire and M. J. Duncan-Flowers. 1989. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Illinois Byzantine Studies 2. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Exhibition catalogue with Karanis objects]
Minnen, P. van. 1994. "House-to-House Enquiries: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Roman Karanis." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100: 227-51.
Minnen, P. van. 1995. "Deserted Villages: Two Late Antique Town Sites in Egypt." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32:41-56. [Discussion of the possible dates of abandonment of Karanis and Soknopaiou Nesos]
Pearl, O. M. 1968. Ptolemy, the Son of Kastor: An Egyptian Peasant's Year. The Mary J. Pearl Lecture in Ancient Classical Culture. n.p.: Sweet Briar College. [Privately circulated printing of a lecture on a year in the life of an Egyptian farmer, based on evidence from Karanis]
Peterson, E. E. n.d. "The Architecture and Topography of Karanis." 3 volumes. [Ann Arbor]. [Unpublished manuscript, summarized in Husselman, 1979]
Rea, J.. 1993. P.Haun. III 58: Caranis in the Fifth Century. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 99:89-95.
Sanders, H. A. and J. E. Dunlap. 1947. Latin Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection (Michigan Papyri, Vol. VII). University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, 48. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Includes texts from Karanis]
Schuman, V. B. 1934. "So This is Archaeology." Classical Journal 29:591-98. [Anecdotal account of the University of Michigan excavation of Karanis]
Shier, L. A. 1978. Terracotta Lamps from Karanis, Egypt: Excavations of the University of Michigan. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Studies, vol. 3. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Wagner, G., and S. A. A. El-Nassery. 1975. "Une nouvelle dédicace au grand dieu Soxis." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 19:139-42. [From Karanis]
Wilfong, T. G. 1995. [Karanis Objects]. In The American Discovery of Egypt, ed. N. Thomas. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Art Museum. 227-230. [Exhibition catalogue]
Wilfong, T. G. Forthcoming. "Kom Aushim (Karanis)". In: The Encyclopedia of Egyptian Archaeology , edited by K Bard. New York: Garland Press.
Wilson, L. M. 1933. Ancient Textiles from Egypt in the University of Michigan Collection. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, vol. 31. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Includes a selection of textiles from the Karanis excavation]
Winter, J. G. 1936. Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection: Miscellaneous Papyri (Michigan Papyri, Vol. III). University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, vol. 40. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Text 169 a diptych in Greek and Latin from the Karanis excavations]
Youtie, H. C., V. B. Schuman and O. M. Pearl. 1936-39. Tax Rolls from Karanis in Two Volumes (Michigan Papyri, Vol. IV, Part I-II). University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, 42-43. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Youtie, H. C. and O. M. Pearl. 1944. Papyri and Ostraca from Karanis (Michigan Papyri, Vol. VI). University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, 47. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Youtie, H. C. and J. G. Winter. 1951. Papyri and Ostraca from Karanis, Second Series (Michigan Papyri, Vol. VIII). University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, 50. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

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