Thesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / The geographical location of Punt has been the subject of much scholarly controversy for years.
Numerous locations have been provided, favouring either regions in southern Arabia or East
Africa. The latter being the more accepted theory in this case. Locating the region of Punt is
linked to the foreign trade relations of Egypt during the Dynastic period. The practices that
governed the Egyptian economy and thus its trade relations are studied, along with textual
translations and visual sources in order to determine the kind of contact Egypt had with Punt, the
trade relations between these two regions and the commodities they traded. These things
determine the landscape that Puntites traversed, providing a profile of their habitat, the people
that lived in it and thus a possible location for the region, which is believed to encompass the
Gash Delta, on the borders of modern day Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1564 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Glenister, Catherine Lucy |
| Contributors | Cornelius, I., University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Ancient Studies. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 8628243 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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