Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice RouteUniv of California Press, 07/05/2019 - 456 من الصفحات The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and “global” economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Geography Climate Ancient Authors and Modern Visitors | 7 |
PreRoman Infrastructure in the Eastern Desert | 21 |
Ptolemaic DiplomaticMilitaryCommercial Activities | 32 |
Ptolemaic and Early Roman Berenike and Environs | 55 |
Inhabitants of Berenike in Roman Times | 68 |
Water in the Desert and the Ports | 87 |
NileRed Sea Roads | 125 |
Other Emporia | 175 |
Merchant Ships | 195 |
Commercial Networks and Trade Costs | 206 |
Trade in Roman Berenike | 227 |
Late Roman Berenike and Its Demise | 259 |
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Abu Sha’ar Africa amphoras ancient animals Apollonopolis Magna archaeological areas Axumite Bagnall Berenike Berenike–Koptos Berenike’s Bernand Bülow-Jacobsen camel Cappers Casson chapter cisterns Claudius Ptolemy coins commerce Cosmas Indicopleustes Cuvigny Diodorus Siculus documented earlier early Roman period east Eastern Desert Egypt Egyptian elephants evidence excavations at Berenike fifth century graffiti harbor Harrell Hydreuma important India Indian Ocean indicate inscription Klemm Koptos late Roman Magna Mediterranean military Mons Claudianus Mons Porphyrites Muziris Myos Hormos Nabataean Nile valley ostraka ostrakon Palmyrenes Peacock perhaps Periplus Photo by S.E.Sidebotham Pliny the Elder Porphyrites praesidia praesidium probably Ptolemaic quarries recorded Red Sea coast Red Sea ports Reddé region reign Roman-era routes sailing second century c.e. Serapis Serapis temple settlements ships Sidebotham 1986 Sidebotham 2007b Sidebotham and Wendrich Sidebotham and Zitterkopf sources stations stone Strabo suggests surveys third century tion Tomber trade transport travelers walls