Fatma E Hamouda

Mansoura University, Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty Member

Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie, PhD Student

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Thesis Pubication by Fatma E Hamouda

Hamouda, F.E. (2020), Communication and the Circulation of Letters in the Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Roman Period, Heidelberg

Communication and the circulation of letters in the Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Roman Period, 2020

Over the past thirty years, excavations in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, which was home to important mi... more Over the past thirty years, excavations in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, which was home to important mining sites and the hub for long-distance trade between Rome and the Near and Far East, have turned up thousands of potsherds inscribed with Greek and much fewer with Latin. Most of these texts are private and official letters and they tend to date to the first three centuries of the current era. Studying this large corpus of material, which has not been studied in a synthetic manner before, reveals multiple aspects of life in Roman Egypt: for example, we see how letters were exchanged, who handled and delivered them, whence and to where they were delivered, what obstacles could prevent their delivery, and who communicated with whom, namely, the networks that were formed through epistolary communication. The Eastern Desert brought people of different cultures together, who came to this hardly habitable area generally for reasons of work and commercial interest. It was important to the Rom...

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