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Titre: ADAMS Colin, Land Transport in Roman Egypt. A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. (Oxford Classical Monographs.)
Publication: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, 8°, xiv-331 pp., 3 cartes. ISBN 978-0-19-920397-0. £60.
Résumé: Revised version of an Oxford D.Phil. thesis, 1996. - Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Introduction: Transport and Economy of the Roman World; - 2. The Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks of Egypt. - Part II. Transport Resources: 3. Transport Animals and Wagons; - 4. Animal Use and Maintenance; - 5. Animal Trade and Ownership. - Part III. The Organization of Transport: 6. State Control of Animal Ownership; - 7. Animal Requisition. - Part IV. Case Studies: 8. State Grain Transport; - 9. Deserts and Military Supply; - 10. Trade and Transport; - 11. Transport and Land Economy. - Conclusion. - Bibliography. Index Locorum. Index.
C.R.: C.R. par Andrea Jördens, BASP 44 (2007) pp. 261-265. - Jane Rowlandson, JRS 98 (2008) pp. 221-222. - Janneke de Jong, CR N.S., 60 (2010) pp. 241-243.
No: 2007-0001

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19484. Colin Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt. A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. (Oxford Classical Monographs.), (Oxford 2007). [xml] [edit]