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Province, 117 CE
Aegyptus
Imperial prefecture (equestrian prefect)Capital: Alexandria
Legally unlike every other province — Augustus barred senators from even entering without his personal permission, and ran it through an equestrian prefect answerable only to the emperor, because Egypt's grain fed Rome and no ambitious senator was allowed near that lever. In 117 the province was still recovering from the Kitos War, whose Jewish-Greek communal violence had devastated Alexandria's ancient Jewish quarter.
24 places on the map
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina et Mouseion · Library
- Classis Alexandrina · Naval Base
- Heptastadion · Road
- Ludus Alexandrinus · Ludus
- Mons Claudianus · Quarry
- Mons Porphyrites · Quarry
- Mons Smaragdus · Mine
- Nicopolis · Fort
- Oraculum Hammonis · Oracle
- Pharos Alexandriae · Lighthouse
- Sanctuarium Imuthis, Deir el-Bahari · Asklepieion
- Serapeum Alexandriae · Temple
- Syene · Quarry
- Templum Ammonis, Thebae · Temple
- Templum Chnubis, Latopolis · Temple
- Templum Debod · Temple
- Templum Hathoris, Tentyra · Temple
- Templum Hori, Apollinopolis Magna · Temple
- Templum Ipet-resyt, Thebae · Temple
- Templum Isidis, Philae · Temple
- Templum Mandulis, Talmis · Temple
- Templum Petesi et Pihoris, Tutzis · Temple
- Templum Sobek et Haroeris, Ombos · Temple
- Via Coptos-Berenice (Hammamat quarries) · Quarry
Sources
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.17
- Tacitus, Annals 2.59 (senators barred from Egypt)
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