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From military base to international emporium: the nature and functioning of the Hellenistic port of Berenike on the Red Sea

2015/17/N/HS3/00163

Keywords:

Red Sea Red Sea trade ports of the Ptolemies Hellenistic fortresses Egyptian expeditions to East Africa

Descriptors:

  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)
  • HS3_4: Economic history

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej im. prof. Kazimierza Michałowskiego

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Marek Woźniak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 9 - announced on 2015-03-16

Amount awarded: 145 852 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-01-25

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2020-01-24

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Dron typu np. Quadrocopter Phantom 2 VISION + DJI) (5 000 PLN)
  2. Komputer- ex. Lenovo Y70-70 i7-4710HQ , lub Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro M-5Y70 (5 500 PLN)
  3. Skaner.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (2)
  1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK IN BERENIKE IN 2014 AND 2015: FROM HELLENISTIC ROCK-CUT INSTALLATIONS TO ABANDONED TEMPLE RUINS
    Authors:
    Iwona Zych, Steven E. Sidebotham, Martin Hense, Joanna K. Rądkowska, Marek Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 25 (rok: 2016, tom: 25, strony: 315 - 348), Wydawca: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (WUW)
    Status:
    Published
  2. Hellenistic Berenike: Resources, logistics and daily life in a Ptolemaic fortress on the Red Sea coast of Egypt"
    Authors:
    M. Woźniak, S.E. Sidebotham, M. Osypińska, A. Carannante, J.K. Rądkowska.
    Academic press:
    American Journal of Archaeology (rok: 2021, tom: 125/2, strony: 247-281), Wydawca: Archaeological Institute of America
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0012.1820 - link to the publication
  3. Operating and defending Red Sea harbor centers and Eastern Desert trails in the Ptolemaic and early Roman periods: the case of Berenike"
    Authors:
    Marek Adam Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean (rok: 2021, tom: 28/2, strony: 431-458), Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0013.6896 - link to the publication
  4. Shaping a city and its defenses: the fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika.
    Authors:
    Marek Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2017, tom: 26/2, strony: 43-60), Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0012.1820 - link to the publication
  5. "Livestock Economy at Berenike, a Hellenistic City on the Red Sea (Egypt)"
    Authors:
    Marta Osypińska, Marek Woźniak.
    Academic press:
    African Archaeological Review" (rok: 2019, tom: vol. 36 issue 3, strony: 367-382), Wydawca: Springer Verlag
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10437-019-09346-w - link to the publication
  6. Berenike Trogodytika: a Hellenistic fortress on the Red Sea coast, Egypt.
    Authors:
    Marek Woźniak, Joanna Rądkowska
    Academic press:
    Antiquity, Project gallery (rok: 2018, tom: 366, strony: 45298), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.15184/aqy.2018.252 - link to the publication
  7. Shaping a city and its defenses; fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika.
    Authors:
    Marek Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2017, tom: 26/2, strony: 43-60), Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0012.1820 - link to the publication
  8. When the well runs dry: climatic instability and the abandonment of early Hellenistic Berenike
    Authors:
    Marek A. Woźniak, James A. Harrell
    Academic press:
    Antiquity (rok: 2021, tom: 95/380, strony: 349 - 366), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.15184/aqy.2021.16 - link to the publication
  1. "Berenike of the Ptolemies: desert city, fortress"
    Authors:
    Marek Adam Woźniak
    Conference:
    Current Research in Egyptology 2018" (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing
    Data:
    konferencja 25-28 June 2018
    Status:
    Published
  2. . "Berenice – why there; environmental, economic and logistic conditions of the location of the Hellenistic city/base"
    Authors:
    Marek Adam Woźniak
    Conference:
    The Red Sea 9 Conference; Networked Spaces; The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean (rok: 2020, ), Wydawca: Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranee Jean Pouilloux
    Data:
    konferencja 02-05 lipiec 2019
    Status:
    Accepted for publication