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Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity
Pearce Paul Creasman
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Description for Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity
Paperback. A collection of papers that focuses on one particularly important aspect of foreign trade: the importation of aromatic products. Through archaeological research, epigraphic analysis and iconographic investigations it explores new evidence supporting the most likely hypothesis about the sources of these raw materials. Editor(s): Incordino, Ilaria; Creasman, Pearce Paul. Num Pages: 112 pages, b/w and colour. BIC Classification: 1H; 1QDAE; HBLA; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view. This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect of foreign trade: the importation of aromatic products. Contributors present the results of the latest researches into the origin and meaning of foreign aromatic products imported in Egypt from the south (Nubia, Punt, Arabia, Horn of Africa) from the beginning of the Dynastic period. The quest for aromata has been of a crucial importance in Egypt, since it was closely connected with economic, ... Read more
In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view. This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect of foreign trade: the importation of aromatic products. Contributors present the results of the latest researches into the origin and meaning of foreign aromatic products imported in Egypt from the south (Nubia, Punt, Arabia, Horn of Africa) from the beginning of the Dynastic period. The quest for aromata has been of a crucial importance in Egypt, since it was closely connected with economic, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785706363
SKU
V9781785706363
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99-3
About Pearce Paul Creasman
Ilaria Incordino is Research Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Naples L'Orientale . Her mainain research interests are in the rise of pharaonic ideology and its symbols, cultural and commercial exchanges between Egypt and its neighbour countries, and pharaonic and Byzantine pottery analysis. Pearce Paul Creasman is Associate Professor of Dendrochronology and Egyptian Archaeology and Director of the ... Read more
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