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Auteur(s) : De Romanis, Federico
Titre(s) : The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus [Texte imprimé] / Federico De Romanis
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-381 p.) : ill. en noir, fac-similés, cartes, jaquette ill. en coul. ;
24 cm
Collection : Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies on the Roman economy
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [335]-359. Index
"This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century
AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments
of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial
enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of
a South Indian cargo imported on a ship named the Hermapollon. The two texts, whose
informative potential has long been underexploited, clarify several aspects of the
early Roman Empire's trade with South India, including transport logistics, financial
and legal elements in the loan agreement funding the commercial enterprise, the trade
goods included in the South Indian cargo, and the technicalities of calculating and
collecting Roman customs duties on the Indian imports. This study also considers imperial
fiscal policy as it related to the South Indian trade, the overall evolution of Rome's
trade relations with South India, the structure and organization of South Indian trade
stakeholders, and the role played by private tax-collectors. The in-depth analysis
sheds new light on this important sector of the Roman economy during the first two
centuries AD in two innovative ways: through a balanced consideration of South Indian
sources and data, and by drawing comparisons with the pepper trade from late antiquity,
the Middle Ages, and early modernity, resulting in a longue durée perspective on the
western trade in South Indian pepper."
Sujet(s) : Poivre -- Industrie et commerce -- Antiquité
Commerce -- Inde -- Rome
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek -- Manuscrit. P. Vindob. G. 40822
Genre ou forme : Sources
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198842347 (relié sous jaquette). - ISBN 0198842341 (relié sous jaquette)
EAN 9780198842347
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46608412c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46608412
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