Making the Private Public: A Delivery of Palestinian oil in third/ninth-century Egypt

A short document written on papyrus records an order for the delivery of Palestinian oil in third/ninth-century CE Egypt. It reveals interesting information concerning transregional trade relations, commercial infrastructures and the logistics of product distribution, as well as document-validation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petra Marieke Sijpesteijn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Oriental Society 2014-06-01
Series:Studia Orientalia Electronica
Subjects:
oil
Online Access:https://journal.fi/store/article/view/41377