On the Trade of Shells and Fish from the Nile River

Large, fresh-water shells (Aspatharia, Mutela) and fish (Clarias) that originated in the Nile River have been found on excavations mainly in Palestine but also in the Aegean, Cyprus, and North Africa beyond Egypt. The shells from prehistoric sites are seen as exotic imports, often burial or sanctuar...

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Authors: Reese, David S. (Author) ; Mienis, Henk K. (Author) ; Woodward, Fred R. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 1986
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1986, Volume: 264, Pages: 79-84
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Summary:Large, fresh-water shells (Aspatharia, Mutela) and fish (Clarias) that originated in the Nile River have been found on excavations mainly in Palestine but also in the Aegean, Cyprus, and North Africa beyond Egypt. The shells from prehistoric sites are seen as exotic imports, often burial or sanctuary offerings. They are often holed to make small containers. Those found in quantity from later sites may have been an exotic food source. The fish from a Cypriot tomb and from excavations in Libya were probably exotic food remains for the living and the dead. The temporal and spatial distribution of these remains indicates that they should be added to the corpus of objects traded from Egypt.
ISSN:2161-8062
Contains:Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1357022