Steven E Sidebotham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1051487 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven E Sidebotham |
| PRENOMES | Steven E |
| SOBRENOME | Sidebotham |
| ASSINATURA | SIDEBOTHAM S E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delaware |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Animal cemetery and caravan stop — investigating suburban space in a transcontinental port in Berenike (Red Sea, Egypt)
Berenike was a port of trade between the Roman Empire, Arabia, Africa and India. • Companion animals were buried with care during town’s peak prosperity in 1–2c. CE. • A masonry structure became the centerpiece of the animal cemetery in mid-1st c. CE. • Caravans from the Nile Valley may have stopped near the area of animal cemetery. • Data from animal cemetery illuminates spatial development of the ancient port suburbs. This paper presents new ar…
Survey of Some Sites in the Wadi el-Gemal National Park in the Eastern Desert
Between December 19, 2022, and January 3, 2023, the authors conducted intensive surveys of several Roman-era sites in the Wadi el-Gemal National Park (Eastern Desert). These surveys were part of the Sikait 2023 exca- vations directed by J. Oller Guzmán. The Sikait Project is a joint archaeological mission between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology. Its main goal is to study the processes of ex…
A new ‘enigmatic settlement’ discovered in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Une prospection récente dans la région de l’ancien Mons Smaragdos (à l’intérieur du parc national de Wadi Gemal) dans le désert oriental d’Égypte a mis au jour une installation jusque-là inconnue appelée Zabara Northwest. Son emplacement, son apparence et ses dates d’occupation ressemblent à ces « enigmatic settlements » précédemment étudiés dans la région. Le site nouvellement localisé s’ajoute au corpus de peuplements de fonction inconnue appar…
Some Ptolemaic and Roman Sites in the Central Eastern Desert
The University of Delaware conducted numerous surveys in the Eastern Desert between 1987 and 2015. This contribution examines eight sites studied between 1990 and 1999 that lay east of the Nile city of Qena in Upper Egypt. They include mines, quarries, and road infrastructure (forts and accommodations for transport animals) that supported these mineral extraction activities. Sites throughout the region range from pre-historic to Islamic and moder…
A Falcon Shrine at the Port of Berenike (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)
During excavations at the Hellenistic-Roman port of Berenike (on the Red Sea coast of Egypt) in the winter of 2019, work in the so-called Northern Complex documented a religious space from the Late Roman period. The excavation of a portion of this space recorded material that, together with the architecture, suggests a ritual function associated with a falcon cult. This study examines the features of this edifice and the interpretation of the rel…
Ptolemaic Berenike
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' mother, Berenike is the only archaeologically attested Hellenistic-era Red Sea emporium. According to literary evidence, it was one of about a dozen founde…
Berenike, Archaeology of
Berenike, Archaeology of
Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike 1994-2015
Fifteen seasons of survey and excavation (1994-2001 and 2009-2015) and one week of survey alone (2008) at Berenike (Fig. 1) have documented abundant evidence about this Egyptian Red Sea emporium that functioned for about 800 years. Founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus before the mid-third BC Berenike, located about 825 km south southeast of Suez and ca. 260 km east of Aswan, operated until its final peaceful abandonment sometime prior to the middle…
Shaping a city and its defenses; fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika
Key information on the location, size and dating of the Ptolemaic fortifications of Berenike Trogodytika comes from archaeological excavations carried out in 2013–2015, following the 2012 season when the presence of military architecture in the Red Sea harbor was first discovered and identified (Woźniak and Rądkowska 2014). Sections of a thick wall constructed of gypsum anhydrite blocks on a wide foundation were recorded in the northern part of t…
Archaeological fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015
The report brings a comprehensive summary of archaeological fieldwork and survey carried out in Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt and in the Eastern Desert hinterland over the course of two seasons in 2014 and 2015. The completed magnetic map of the site is discussed in some detail, assessing the potential for future excavations. The report covers the most important discoveries of the two seasons, which include fragments of Middle Kingdom Ph…
Berenike Project. Hellenistic fort, Roman harbor, late Roman temple, and other fieldwork
Brief overview of two seasons of archaeological survey and excavation carried out in 2012 and 2013 at the site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast and in two sub-projects in the Eastern Desert: the prehistoric cattle cemetery at Wadi Khashab and the Roman-era emerald mines at Sikait and Nugrus. Highpoints of the work at Berenike included discovery of the Hellenistic fort and fortifications that mark the original settlement of the site in the third q…
Religion and Burial at the Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Emporium of Berenike, Egypt
The Parthian presence in the Arabian Gulf 0 0 •• 0 0 •• 0 • 0 • 000
In his critique ofMommsen's interpretation ofRoman rule and strategy in the Near East, the great Strasbourg orientalist Theodor Noldeke (1885: 347) affirmed he considered it unlikely that the Parthians had ever controlled the Arabian side of the Gulf, a feat which even the Sasanians had achieved with only limited success. Five years later, however, Eduard Glaser (1890: 192) asserted, based on his interpretation of the Periplus, that not only had …
Berenike, Egypt
Berenike (23° 54.62' N/35° 28.42' E), a Ptolemaic‐Roman port (third century BCE –sixth century CE ), lies on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, approximately 825 km south of Suez (Clysma‐Cleopatris‐Arsinoe‐Qolzoum) and 260 km east of Aswan (Syene). Ptolemaic Berenike imported elephants by sea; Roman‐era Berenike was a commercial link between the Mediterranean basin and Red Sea–Indian Ocean littorals.
Eastern Desert
The Eastern Desert of Egypt, between the Nile and the Red Sea, from the Za'farana‐Krymat highway to the Sudanese border comprises ca.
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today's Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. This book, written by the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers …
The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis, Eritrea
Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World (review)
Reviewed by: Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World Steven E. Sidebotham C. M. Reed . Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 162. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-26848-6. Reed notes the substantial influence that the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix had on his slim tome, which covers the Archaic and classical Greek periods. The book has a terminal date of 323 B.C., at which time the nature of the evid…
Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
A Water Temple at Bir Abu Safa (Eastern Desert)
Steven E. Sidebotham, Gabriel T. Mikhail, James A. Harrell, Roger S. Bagnall, A Water Temple at Bir Abu Safa (Eastern Desert), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 41 (2004), pp. 149-159
Roman Game Boards from Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)
The discovery of twenty game boards - including some in a dedicated den or gaming room - in the late Roman fort at Abu Sha'ar, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, conjures up images of daily life at a well established, but remote Roman military station. Here, during the long hot days and cool nights, soldiers no doubt played board games and gambled incessantly. This paper describes the boards, the likely games played on them and the areas of the fort …
Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert
The on-going survey of the Graeco-Roman remains in the Egyptian Eastern Desert constantly reveals previously unknown sites and settlements. Most can be shown to be related to either quarries, (gold) mines or the ancient road system. Some have a less evident raison d'être. Five such enigmatic settlements, all dating from the fifth to seventh centuries AD, are presented here. They show similarities in the construction method of the structures, thei…
Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert
Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade. Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations, by Rajan Gurukkal
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today's Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. This book, written by the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers …
Roman Game Boards from Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)
The discovery of twenty game boards - including some in a dedicated den or gaming room - in the late Roman fort at Abu Sha'ar, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, conjures up images of daily life at a well established, but remote Roman military station. Here, during the long hot days and cool nights, soldiers no doubt played board games and gambled incessantly. This paper describes the boards, the likely games played on them and the areas of the fort …
Survey of the Via Hadriana
Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea
Sidebotham Steven E. Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea. In: Topoi, volume 6/2, 1996. pp. 785-797
Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road
In January 1989 a survey conducted by the University of Delaware studied all, and redrew plans of most, key installations along the ancient thoroughfare between the Red Sea coast at 'Abu Sha'ar and the Nile emporium of Kainopolis (Qena). Installations in the Roman quarries at Mons Porphyrites were also examined. The survey dated activity at these sites primarily through careful analysis of surface ceramics and secondarily with reference to epigra…
Caesarea Maritima
Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast
Ptolemaic Berenike
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' mother, Berenike is the only archaeologically attested Hellenistic-era Red Sea emporium. According to literary evidence, it was one of about a dozen founde…
Preliminary Report on the 1990-1991 Seasons of Fieldwork at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast)
Herodotus on Artemisium
Ancient Egypt
List of figures Preface 1. The rise of Egyptian civilization B. G. Trigger 2. Old kingdom, middle kingdom and second intermediate period c. 2686-1552 BC Barry J. Kemp 3. New kingdom and third intermediate period, 1552-664 BC David O'Connor 4. The late period, 664-323 BC Alan B. Lloyd Bibliographical essays Bibliography Index
Ancient Bronze Coins in the McGill University Collection
The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War
The Wadi Al-Jubah Archaeological Project, Vol. 1
The Roman Empire
Stations and Towers on the Quseir–Nile Road
During Roman times the Leukos Limen–Nile road served as a principal overland thoroughfare across the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Merchants plied this route with commodities imported from and exported to the ‘East’. Products of the mines and quarries of the region also passed along this road. Eight fortified stations (hydreumata), other population centres and about 65 towers delineate the route. Many of the stations contain wells or cisterns as potab…
Stations and Towers on the Quseir-Nile Road
Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade
Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast
Les Fontaines de la Porte Nord (Dendara
Caesarea Maritima
The Periplus Maris Erythraei. Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
The Culture of War
Foreword by William C. Martel Introduction The Biology of War The Archaeology of War The Middle Passage: War in the Bronze Age The Iron Army of Assyria Persia: The Emergence of Logistics The Greeks and the Myth of Glory Rome and the Rise of the Military Organization War and the Legacy of the Ancients Selected Bibliography Index
Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road
In January 1989 a survey conducted by the University of Delaware studied all, and redrew plans of most, key installations along the ancient thoroughfare between the Red Sea coast at 'Abu Sha'ar and the Nile emporium of Kainopolis (Qena). Installations in the Roman quarries at Mons Porphyrites were also examined. The survey dated activity at these sites primarily through careful analysis of surface ceramics and secondarily with reference to epigra…
Travelers to an Antique Land. The History and Literature of Travel to Greece
Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel
Preliminary Report on the 1990-1991 Seasons of Fieldwork at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast)
A Ptolemaic Inscription from Bir 'Iayyan
Transcription, traduction anglaise et commentaire d'une inscription gravee sur une stele de gres, de la periode ptolemaique, qui constituent une sorte de borne marquant une distance depuis le Nil, installee par le toparche Rhodon, fils de Lysimaque. Ce titre de toparche amene l'auteur a s'interroger sur l'organisation de la Haute Egypte au IIIe s. av. J.-C. et sur les pratiques administratives des Ptolemees
Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert
Preliminary report of a survey of the Eastern Desert between the ancient Abu Sha'ar–Nile road in the north and the modern Quseir–Nile highway in the south. A number of hitherto unknown ancient sites have been recorded including road segments, road stations on the Abu Sha'ar–Nile road, gold mines, and hard stone quarries. A Latin inscription at one of these, associated with quarrying activities in the region and naming Flavius Diadumenus and Flavi…
Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert
An Overview of Archaeological Work in the Eastern Desert and along the Red Sea Coast of Egypt by the University of Delaware-Leiden University 1987-1995
Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea
Sidebotham Steven E. Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea. In: Topoi, volume 6/2, 1996. pp. 785-797
Egypt in Late Antiquity
Cassia, cinnamomo, ossidiana
Crossings
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