Roads in the deserts of Roman Egypt

Egypt under the Romans (30 BCE-3rd century CE) was a period when local deserts experienced an unprecedented flurry of activity. In the Eastern Desert, a marked increase in desert traffic came from imperial prospecting/quarrying activities and caravans transporting wares to and from the Red Sea ports...

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Main Author: Paprocki, Maciej (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxbow Books , [2019]
Subjects:
Eastern Desert (Egypt) > Antiquities, Roman
Oriental, Désert (Égypte) - Antiquités romaines
Egypt - Eastern Desert
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvkjb2wr
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Roads in the deserts of Roman Egypt
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: research aims, book structure, and sources
  • Main research aims and scope
  • Structure of this book
  • This book as an atlas: maps of desert trails of Roman Egypt
  • Sources on ancient traffic along desert trails of Egypt
  • Road networks of Roman Egypt
  • Factors influencing road network structure in Roman Egypt
  • Dense and sparse zones in the Egyptian deserts under the Roman influence
  • Pack animals in ancient Egyptian desert transport: shifting patterns of use
  • Donkeys
  • Camels
  • Oxen
  • Horses
  • Roads of the Sinai Peninsula
  • Roman Sinai as the Nabataean trade corridor between Africa and Asia
  • Roads linking northern Egypt to Palestine
  • Nabataean road nexus in the Negev
  • Trails linking the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez
  • Trails across the central and southern Sinai
  • Roads of the Eastern Desert
  • Roads of the Eastern Desert
  • northern section
  • Roads of the Eastern Desert
  • central section
  • Roads of the Eastern Desert
  • southern section
  • Roads of the Western Desert
  • Roads from Alexandria
  • Roads between Memphis and selected Western Desert sites
  • Roads from Siwa to the Mediterranean coast and the Nile Valley
  • Roads from Bahariya Oasis to the Nile Valley
  • Asyut Oasis Junction (roads from Farafra, Dakhla and Kharga to Asyut)
  • Other roads from Kharga to the Nile Valley
  • Roads crossing the Qena Nile Bend
  • Roads linking Dunqul and Kurkur Oases with Syene, al Shabb, Selima and Kharga Oases
  • Roads between major oases
  • Roads from major oases to sites beyond Egypt
  • Road density area studies
  • Introduction
  • Area studies
  • Conclusions and future research.

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