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Life on the military routes of the Eastern Desert - HÉLÈNE CUVIGNY (ed.), J.-P. BRUN, A. BÜLOW-JACOBSEN, D. CARDON, H. ERISTOV, H. GRANGER-TAYLOR, M. LEGUILLOUX, W. NOWIK, M. REDDÉ, M. TENGBERG, avec des contributions de F. Briquel-Chatonnet et de T. Gagos, DIDYMOI. UNE GARNISON ROMAINE DANS LE DÉSERT ORIENTAL D’ÉGYPTE. Praesidia du désert de Bérénice IV, vol. II — LES TEXTES (Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Fouilles de l’Ifao 67, Le Caire 2012). Pp. xv + 453, figs. 52. ISSN 4703-; ISBN 978-2-7247-0586-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Alan Bowman*
Affiliation:
Brasenose College, Oxford, alan.bowman@bnc.ox.ac.uk

Abstract

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References

1 Cuvigny, H. (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos. L’armée romaine dans le désert Oriental d’Égypte (Praesidia du désert de Bérénice I; FIFAO 48.1-2, Cairo 2003/2006)Google Scholar.

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4 I note in passing that 18, a substantial text that appears to belong to this group despite its later location in the stratigraphy, is not translated while many much less informative documents are.

5 Rea, J. R., “Ordinatus,” ZPE 38 (1980) 217–19Google Scholar, Gilliam, J. F., “The ordinarii and ordinati of the Roman army,” Roman army papers (Amsterdam 1986) 122 Google Scholar (originally published at TAPhA 71 [1940] 127–48Google Scholar).

6 See Fink, R. O., Roman military records on papyrus (Cleveland, OH 1971) 20 and note to 1.22 (on p. 140)Google Scholar.