title: Looking for Arabia Nova
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metadata.value: Bukharin, Mikhail D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T10:42:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T10:42:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Bukharin M. D. Looking for Arabia Nova. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 2, рp. 438–450.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32775
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The administrative structure of the Roman Empire is still not fully understood. Some questions
  remain unanswered due to the unique nature of historical sources. A number of notions
  are mentioned only once or in a very unclear context. For example, the notion of “New Arabia”
  (ἡ νέα (ἐπαρχεία) Ἀραβία) is raised in a several papyri of the 2nd and 4th century AD. The explanation
  for the earlier documents is clear: the newly created province of Arabia is mentioned
  there. A letter P. Oxy 50. 3574 (beginning of the 4th century AD) is a much more complicated
  example of such denomination. Scholars believe that it refers to a province although Roman
  sources do not mention any province called “Arabia”, except for the one created in 106 AD under
  Trajan. In fact, “New Arabia” in P. Oxy 50. 3574 does not allude to a newly created province
  (ἐπαρχία) around Eleutheropolis instead of the former nomos Arabia in Egypt or in Idumaea,
  as is assumed in contemporary studies. “New Arabia” in this document most likely refers to
  τοπαρχία (“district”, normally, a part of a nomos). The borders of this τοπαρχία had changed
  several times, and it moved from Lower to Upper Egypt. The enigmatic notion of “ἀπὸ ὁρίων
  Ἐλευθεροπόλεως τῆς Νέας Ἀραβείας” maybe interpreted that the “New Arabia” did not refer
  to the city of Eleutheropolis but rather to its borders: “…from the Eleutheropolis — the border
  of New Arabia”. Whether Eleutheropolis lay inside or outside this border, remains an open
  question. “New Arabia” cannot be connected with information of Laterculus Veronensis or
  Tabula Peutingeriana either.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was written in the framework of the project “Greco-Roman maritime trade between Africa
  and South Arabia in the southern Red Sea” of the German Archaeological Institute.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman Arabia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: province
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: administrative structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Egypt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: papyri
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eleutheropolis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Oxyrinchos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Looking for Arabia Nova
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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