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, Herbert Verreth, whom I thank for helping me with his many comments, and spotting many small blunders, omissions and inconsistencies; otherwise noted, all photographs were taken by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, whom I also thank, as well as Mathilde Bru
, MyHor. I thank Wilfried Van Rengen for allowing me to quote ostraca belonging to the two last corpora
, Excavations 2014-2016 funded by IFAO and MAE in the programme MAFDO now led by
, I use the reference system of the latest edition of the Geography, which Germaine Aujac kindly drew to my attention: Klaudios Ptolemaios Handbuch der Geographie, 2006.
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, Nowadays, they are threatened by a project of intensive mining exploitation which will concentrate on the so-called Gold Triangle, These gold mining sites that often betray activity in the Ptolemaic period have never been explored, pp.68-146
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, Commented on in the section Praesidia, pp.113-118
, Commented on in the section Praesidia, pp.115-117
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, where the writing betrays a Latin speaker; and O.Claud. II 372, letter of Aelius Serenus, who refers to himself as ???????? ?????????? ?????????? while in his letter O, letter from ???????? ?????? < ? > ? ????????? (sic), vol.8094, 1996.
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, ???????? is not taken into account. It confirms a fact of popular pronunciation which removes the o of ????. 28. The emerald mines are called ?????????? ??????? in Heliodoros
, Why couldn't it be, however, the effigy in porphyry of a lagona? 30. It belongs to a group of masculine and feminine nouns formed on a nominal base, and characterized by the suffix -???? for masculine, -????, for feminine. These denominational derivatives, that have proliferated from the Hellenistic period, are frequently trade-names, terms of botany, zoology, geology and geography, 1949.
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, While Bagnall and Harrell perceive the colour of this material as pale, for Gnoli, who calls it porfido serpentino nero, p.113, 1971.
, It is called granito della colonna, the most famous object made in this material being a small column (actually a baluster) brought from the Holy Land in the thirteenth century by Cardinal Giovanni Colonna; assumed to be the column of the scourging of Jesus, it is kept in the church of St. Praxedes in Rome (one easily finds a picture on the web by searching Colonna della flagellazione). The discoverer of this quarry, p.126, 1971.
, The fact that Germanike Latomia was a delivery address for a camel driver delivering supplies indicates that the feature to which this place name refers is a metallon, not a latomia in its usual meaning of a specific quarry-site
, In the ostraca from Umm Balad, we have five occurrences of the spelling ???? -and four of ????
, Les fermiers de l'arabarchie : notables et hommes d'affaires à Alexandrie, On the alabarchai, tax farmers who were sometimes fabulously rich, see Burkhalter F, pp.175-184, 1999.
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, The numbers are shown on the plan published in O, p.10, 1992.
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, Pan 45 = SEG XLVII 2122 (4), where the unfortunate resolution ????(??????) is corrected
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, Except in the Anonymous of Ravenna (Caenopoli)
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, John Rea observed that a reading ??????? is not excluded
, But probably not the Prefect of Berenike, who seems to be at this time Arruntius Agrippinus ( O.Krok. I, p.137
, It is only after seeing the graffito, after a month of excavation, that I made the connection between the shape of the rock and the curious name of the praesidium
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, This does not necessarily mean that the soldiers were still stationed in the village: the proskynemata may have been left by travellers. Ostraca found in the village indicate the presence of a mixed population of quarry workers and soldiers, but none are dated, 1993.
, I owe this remark to Herbert Verreth
, In theory, it could also be the genitive of C?????, name of a Syrian god (Route I, p.56
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, When one thinks about it, the Greek and Latin did not have a noun to refer to this geographical feature, other than ??????, solitudo, which are perhaps too suggestive
, This edition of the Geography also wrongly distinguishes between Berenike in 4.5.15 and Berenike Trogodytika, F4 (Berenicidis Mons= Smaragdos Oros), vol.80, 2000.
, The parallel expression ?? ???? ?????? ???? attested in OGIS 168, Pan, vol.86, p.14
, AD 115 ) does not designate a vast desert region such as the desert of Koptos or Berenike, but only the quarry area of Syene; it is a descriptive gloss rather than a toponym and, if we consider it as a toponym, vol.244
, Today Qusayr al-Qadim
, ???? ????? vs 19 of ????????/???????????. Some manuscripts of the Geography of Ptolemy present the reading ????????
, The late David Peacock liked this idea and wrote back: "I think your suggestion is a good one. The entrance is narrow and divers have seen a reef in the middle
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, inv. 1149. We read line 7: ???? ?? ??? ??????
, I make my argument using the map of Meredith, having never been to Bi?r Karim myself
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, See Van Rengen's article in these proceedings, § 16. The site of Bi?r (Wadi) Karim is described, with a good satellite image, pp.148-151, 2013.
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, ILS 2698 (Tiberius), vol.51
,
, No more than ??????? in the Ptolemaic era: this is the noun which refers to desert way stations in the ostraca from Bi?r Samut, which, in the third century BC
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, , pp.13-18
, ?? ??? ?????????? : O.Claud. inv, vol.7294, p.7484
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, Desanges doubts this interpretation and believes Pliny misunderstood its source, and that Juba had only written that the island takes its name from the Greek verb ???????? (Desanges, p.62, 2008.