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The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus (Hardcover)
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The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
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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 of the early Roman
Empire's trade with South India, including transport logistics,
financial and legal elements in the loan agreement funding the
commercial enterprise, the trade goods included in the South Indian
cargo, and the technicalities of calculating and collecting Roman
customs duties on the Indian imports. This study also considers
imperial fiscal policy as it related to the South Indian trade, the
overall evolution of Rome's trade relations with South India, the
structure and organization of South Indian trade stakeholders, and
the role played by private tax-collectors. The in-depth analysis
sheds new light on this important sector of the Roman economy
during the first two centuries AD in two innovative ways: through a
balanced consideration of South Indian sources and data, and by
drawing comparisons with the pepper trade from late antiquity, the
Middle Ages, and early modernity, resulting in a longue duree
perspective on the western trade in South Indian pepper.
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