Emeralds, Legions, and Nomads: Latest Results of the Sikait Project
Keywords:
Wadi Sikait, Smaragdos, emeralds, Roman Egypt
Abstract
The Sikait Project is an archaeological project centered in the analysis of the extraction and trade of emeralds in Antiquity. Since 2018 it has conducted five archaeological seasons in the Wadi el-Gemal National Park (Eastern Desert of Egypt), a region known in ancient times as the “Smaragdos”, for being the only area within the Roman Empire where emeralds could be found. The current paper introduces the results of the project during the 2020 to 2023 seasons, focusing on the archaeological excavations in Sikait and the documentation of the emerald mines.Downloads
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Foster, B. C., Rivard, J.-L. G., Sidebotham, S. E. y Cuvigny, H. (2007). Survey of the Emerald Mines at Wadi Sikait. 2000/2001 Seasons, en: Sidebotham, S. E. y Wendrich, W. (eds.), Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region. Los Ángeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA, 304-343.
García-Dils de la Vega, S., Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D. y Trevín Pita, V. (2021). The emerald mines of Wadi Sikait (Egypt) from a diachronic perspective. Results of the 2020 and 2021 seasons of the Sikait Project, en: Trabajos de Egiptología 12: 19-48.
García-Dils de la Vega, S., Ast, R., Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D. y Trevín Pita, V. (2022). Loci and the Legio III Cyrenaica in New Inscriptions from the Roman Emerald Mines of Wadi Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), en: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 223: 109-119.
Oller Guzmán, J. (2019). Belzoni estuvo aquí. Viajes y descubrimientos de Giovanni Battista Belzoni en el Desierto Oriental Egipcio, en: Athenaeum 107 (2): 581-603.
Oller Guzmán, J. (2021). La “Pompeya del desierto”. 200 años del redescubrimiento del Mons Smaragdus por Frédéric Cailliaud, en: Athenaeum 109 (2): 555-596.
Oller Guzmán, J. (2022a). Esmeraldas en las fuentes literarias clásicas: una breve aproximación, en: Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua 35: 77-110.
Oller Guzmán, J. (2022b). From the sea, to the river, through the desert. Some issues regarding the emerald trade network in Roman Egypt, en: Durand, C., Marchand, J., Redon, B. y Schneider, P. (eds.), Networked spaces. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 374-381.
Oller Guzmán, J. (2022c). Temples and shrines in the emerald mines: the religious buildings of ancient Senskis, en: Fernández Pichel, A. I. (ed.), Of Gods and Men. Research on Egyptian Temple from the New Kingdom to the Greco-roman Period. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 241-267.
Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D., Trevín Pita, V. y Achón Casas, O. (2019). La explotación de esmeraldas en el Egipto romano. Primeros resultados del Sikait Project, en: Trabajos de Egiptología 10: 283-303.
Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D., Trevín Pita, V., Achón Casas, O. y García-Dils de la Vega, S. (2021a). New Evidence Regarding Emerald Production in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait (Eastern Desert), en: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80 (1): 123-142.
Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D., Trevín Pita, V., Achón Casas, O., García-Dils de la Vega, S. y Sánchez Blanco, F. (2021b). Emerald Mining during the Roman Period in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Recent Evidence from Wadi Sikait, en: Thetis 26: 25-35.
Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D., Trevín Pita, V., Kapper, O. E., Ast, R., Osypinska, M. y Sidebotham, S. E. (2022a). A falcon shrine at the port of Berenike (Red Sea coast, en: Egypt), American Journal of Archaeology 126 (4): 567-591.
Oller Guzmán, J., García-Dils de la Vega, S., Fernández Abella, D., Carrasco López, J. M., Gilg, H. A., Eguiluz Maestro, D., Molina Pérez, A. y Martín García, E. (2022b). Results of the 2022 Season in the Beryl Mining Area of Wadi Sikait: Excavations in Sikait and Documentation of the Emerald Mines, en: Thetis 27: 7-12.
Rivard, J.-L. G., Foster, B. C. y Sidebotham, S. E. (2002). Emerald City, en: Archaeology 55: 36-41.
Sidebotham, S. E., Gates-Foster, J. E. y Rivard, J.-L. G. (eds.) (2019). The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley. Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research.
Sidebotham, S. E., Hense, M. y Nouwens, H. M. (2008). The Red Land. The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt’s Eastern Desert. El Cairo / Nueva York: The American University in Cairo Press.
Sidebotham, S. E., Nouwens, H. M., Hense, A. M. y Harrell, J. A. (2004). Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork at Sikait (Eastern Desert, Egypt), and Environs: 2002-2003, en: Sahara 15: 7-30.
Published
2023-12-01
How to Cite
Oller Guzmán, J., & García-Dils de la Vega, S. (2023). Emeralds, Legions, and Nomads: Latest Results of the Sikait Project. Revista Del Instituto De Historia Antigua Oriental, (24). https://doi.org/10.34096/rihao.n24.13738
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Dossier. Egiptología iberoamericana (primera parte)
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