Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt

Woźniak, Marek; E. Sidebotham, Steven; Osypińska, Marta; Carannante, Alfredo; K. Rądkowska, Joanna

doi:10.3764/aja.125.2.0247

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Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt

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Authors:

Marek Woźniak

Steven E. Sidebotham

Marta Osypińska

Abstract

Excavations at Berenike (Trogodytika) on the Red Sea coast of Egypt provide a foundation date in the third quarter of the third century BCE, which corroborates Pliny the Elder's (HN 6.33.168) claim that Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285/2–246 BCE) established the port. Named after Philadelphus' mothe...

Subject

Fortress (chess)

Dozen

Ancient history

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