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The Indo-Roman pepper trade and the Muziris papyrus
No full textThe volume presents a fresh and innovative study of the two texts of the Muziris papyrus, one of the most important documents in the legal and economic history of the Roman Empire; offers an analysis that incorporates the longue durée history of the South Indian pepper trade, from antiquity to early modernity; draws on not only the Mediterranean-based data but also the South Indian sources and perspectives in an indepth and balanced comparative examination; clarifies the logistical challenges and economic/fiscal concerns of the early Roman Empire's trade with South India, including the technicalities related to the assessment and collection of Roman customs duties on Indian commodities; reconceptualizes the interplay between merchants, tax collectors, and the imperial Roman government
Seasonal Sailing and Nundinal Floating on the Upper Tiber. A Correction to Plin. nat. III 53
No full textThe article aims to demonstrate that Plin. nat. III 53 requires both a modification of the punctuation commonly adopted by modern editors and a correction of the manuscript text transferring si non adiuvent imbres immediately before longe meabilis fertur. The purpose and operation of the piscinae on the Tiber, Tinia and Clanis rivers are then illustrated
Discussione su: Rajan Gurukkal, Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations. Studies in History, 35(1), 123–128.
No full textL'articolo discute la nozione di Indo-Roman trade
[Recensione a] Matthew Adam Cobb, Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE. (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, no. 418.) Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2018.
No full textThe Business of Demetrius the Arabarch and the Roman Coins from India
No full textThe Muziris papyrus loan agreement shows that the Arabarchs, contractors for the collection of duties on goods from the Indian Ocean, provided financial support to merchants engaged in trade with southern India through their paralemptes, the chief of their operating staff. The identification of the praevalens manceps Demetrius mentioned by Pliny the Elder with the homonymous arabarch mentioned by Flavius Josephus shows that the Arabarchs also granted maritime loans to merchants who exported to Italy goods subject to the duties they had to collect in Alexandria. As per their tax services and financial support, the Arabarchs collected the proceeds from virtually all sales of goods imported from the Indian Ocean to Alexandria and then re-exported to Puteoli, and eventually liquidated both the imperial Treasury and the merchants. Indian findings show that the coins exported to India were carefully selected. Therefore, the Arabarchs played a pivotal role in determining the selection of coins destined for export
Multicultural Synchronisms. Merchants from Italy and Egyptian Seamen in a Red Sea Port
No full textA partire da due iscrizioni trovate nel tempio di Iside a Berenice sul mar Rosso, si indaga sull'uso del cosiddetto anno degli Egiziani in età romana.
The dates in two inscriptions from the temple of Isis at Berenice on the Red Sea are used to examine the survival of the so-called "year of the Ancients" in Roman Egypt
La transition de l'amidonnierau blé dur en Italie romaine et Égypte ptolémaique:de nouvelles céréales pour les mégapoles émergentes
No full textIl saggio studia la diffusione dell'uso della similago, raffinata farina di grano duro di tradizione siriana, nell'Egitto tolemaico e nell'Italia romana. The essay studies the widespread use of similago, a refined durum wheat flour of Syrian tradition, in Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman Italy
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