By Colin Adams
The papyri of Egypt supply a wealthy and complicated photograph of this crucial Roman province and supply an remarkable perception into how a Roman province really labored. additionally they have enough money a important window into historical financial habit and daily life. This examine is the 1st systematic remedy of the position of land shipping in the financial lifetime of Roman Egypt, a regular financial job on the heart of the economic climate not just of Egypt yet of the Roman international. Colin Adams reports the economics of animal possession, the function of shipping within the advertisement and agricultural economies of Egypt, and the way the Roman country used provincial assets to satisfy its personal delivery calls for. He finds a posh dating among deepest person and nation of their use of delivery assets, a dynamic and rational financial system, and the commercial and administrative habit imposed whilst an imperial strength made calls for upon a province.
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Harrell, and R. S. Tomber, ‘The Roman quarry and installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna’, JEA 87 (2001), 135–70. 94 On the construction and purpose of the praesidia, see Cuvigny, La Route de Myos Hormos, i 73–191. On chronology, see ead. 192–204. Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks 39 7 Roman miles distant from Novum Hydreuma. 96 The Antonine Itinerary preserves information on a larger number of stations, although clearly new ones may have been added after Pliny’s time, and there are minor discrepancies in the total distance (257 Roman miles in Pliny, 258 in the Antonine Itinerary), and in the distance from Koptos to a number of stations.
94 On the construction and purpose of the praesidia, see Cuvigny, La Route de Myos Hormos, i 73–191. On chronology, see ead. 192–204. Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks 39 7 Roman miles distant from Novum Hydreuma. 96 The Antonine Itinerary preserves information on a larger number of stations, although clearly new ones may have been added after Pliny’s time, and there are minor discrepancies in the total distance (257 Roman miles in Pliny, 258 in the Antonine Itinerary), and in the distance from Koptos to a number of stations.
Grenf. II 77 (third or fourth century), a letter concerning the transport of a mummy. 59 SB I 4636 ¼ P. Achm. 7 (third century). 60 P. Grenf. II 75 (ad 308) (BL I, 191). Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks 31 The Small Oasis lies to the north of the Great, but is situated closer to the Nile Valley. Four principal routes connected it to other parts of Egypt. Routes to the east and north-east led to the Oxyrhynchite and Arsinoite nomes, and to the south and west lay the Dahkla Oasis and the Oasis of Ammon at Siwa.