At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier

Jackson, Robert B.

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Language: English

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 2002

0300088566 / 9780300088564

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Clean First Edition book and dust jacket. Black paper-covered boards with unchipped gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with four maps, exceptionally nice black and white photographs throughout. 350 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, one 1/4" closed tear at lower front corner flap fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Robert B. Jackson has journeyed by jeep, camel, and on foot to virtually every known Roman site in Rome's Egyptian frontier, from Siwa Oasis, forty-five kilometers from the modern Libyan border, to the Sudan. Drawing on both archaeological and historical information, he discusses these sites, explaining how Rome extracted exotic stone and precious metals from the mountains of the Eastern Desert, channeled the wealth of India and East Africa through the desert via ports on theRed Sea, constructed and manned fortresses in the distant oases of the Western Desert, and facilitated the expansion of agricultural communities in the desert that eventually experienced theearliest large-scale conversions to Christianity in Egypt. Gem of a book.

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Title
At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier
Author
Jackson, Robert B.
Publisher
Yale University Press, New Haven / London
Publication year
2002
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Near Fine
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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0300088566
ISBN 13
9780300088564
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
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