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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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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford
: Oxbow Books
, [2019]
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvkjb2wr |
| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
Roads in the deserts of Roman Egypt |
| E-Book-Pakete: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
