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This book presents the papers delivered at the symposium Heracleion in Context held in Oxford in March 2013. Scholars explore the maritime trading economy of the Egyptian port of Thonis-Heracleion during the Late Period and place it within the wider context of maritime trade at this time. Thonis-Heracleion was the gateway to Egypt, the obligatory port of entry and customs point, and a vital node in the trading network of the eastern Mediterranean through which goods flowed into and out of Egypt. The port and its harbour basins contain a remarkable collection of evidence for the maritime trading economy, including customs decrees, trading weights, coin production as well as the remains of sixty-four ancient shipwrecks. These are set within a detailed understanding of the topography of the port-city, which has been investigated by European Institute for Underwater Archaeology under the overall direction of Franck Goddio. This work brings together the latest work of scholars working on the excavation and post-excavation of Thonis-Heracleion. This is contextualised this through a series of wider ranging studies that examine the developing role of the port within the wider maritime trading economies of the Egyptian Late Period, in the Delta and across the eastern Mediterranean.

Underwater archaeology --- Archéologie sous-marine --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Hrakleia (Egypt : Extinct city) --- Hrakleia (Egypte : Ville ancienne) --- Antiquities --- Egypt --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists --- Thonis-Heracleion (Extinct city) --- Naucratis (Extinct city) --- Abu Qir Bay (Egypt) --- Nile River Delta (Egypt) --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Nile River --- Aboukir Bay (Egypt) --- Abu Kir, Bay of (Egypt) --- Abū Qīr, Bay of (Egypt) --- Abukir Bay (Egypt) --- Abuqir Bay (Egypt) --- Bay of Aboukir (Egypt) --- Bay of Abu Qir (Egypt) --- Khalîg Abu Qîr (Egypt) --- Khalīj Abū Qīr (Egypt) --- Naucratis (Ancient city) --- Naukratis (Extinct city) --- Heracleion (Egypt : Extinct city) --- Heracleion-Thonis (Extinct city) --- Herakleion-Thonis (Extinct city) --- Thonis (Extinct city) --- Commerce --- Economic conditions --- Delta --- Conferences - Meetings