10 février 2021
Pierre Schneider, « Federico de Romanis - The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus », Les sociétés méditerranéennes antiques et les mondes de l'océan Indien, ID : 10670/1.zb439f
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...