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Amheida IV: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Latin Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert

 Nicola Aravecchia
with contributions by
Roger S. Bagnall
Douglas V. Campana
Pamela J. Crabtree
Delphine Dixneuf
Dorota Dzierzbicka
David M. Ratzan
 

ISAW/NYU Press
2018

Online edition prepared by Patrick J. Burns, with markup assistance and copyediting by Meagan Ayer, Amber Jacob, Kate Justement, Tzveta Manolova, and Jackson Payne.

ISBN 978-1-4798-0301-9

Note on Digital Edition

Author

Patrick J. Burns

This is an online digital edition from ISAW Digital Monographs. The print edition of this work can be consulted at https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/isaw-monographs/ain-el-gedida

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World has since 2012 published ISAW Monographs, “authoritative studies of new evidence and research into the texts, archaeology, art history, material culture, and history of the cultures and periods representing the core areas of study at ISAW and reflecting its intellectual mission.” As part of that mission, ISAW has partnered with the NYU Division of Libraries and the NYU Press to publish not only print versions, but also digital versions as part of the Ancient World Digital Library. These online digital versions (for example, An Oasis City) have from the start aimed to provide clear presentations of the book structure and content with attention to links to supplementary material and related digital resources, and in particular linked open data resources.

With the publication of the digital edition of Amheida IV: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Latin Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert, we continue this tradition of online monograph publication but in a new and more visually engaging format. The goal is still a clear presentation of the original volume’s structure and content, but with a reconsideration of the best way that the online version can serve the argument of the book, the presentation of its datasets and catalogs, the presentation of its images, and the organization of its bibliographic materials. The result is a volume that can be read as a website: the text can be searched, images enlarged with a click, bibliographic references resolved by hovering, and so on.

We introduce these features with the goal of making the volume as useful as possible to its scholarly audience. Accordingly, we welcome your feedback on this book-as-website experiment so that we can ensure that such features do in fact enhance the reader’s experience, both in this volume and in many more to come in the ISAW Digital Monographs series.

Patrick J. Burns
Digital Editions Editor
ISAW Digital Monographs
 
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