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Document Details : Title: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Papyrology Subtitle: Mapping Fragmentation and Migration Flow to Hellenistic Egypt Author(s): MUELLER, Katja Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 42 Date: 2005 Pages: 63-92 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.42.0.3275111 Abstract : Just as in the modern world, in antiquity too almost everything that happened, happened somewhere. But knowing where something had happened may appear no longer critically important to us and in papyrology. In this article, I argue that spatial context matters for making the most of papyrological information and for understanding past human interaction. The concept of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is briefly introduced and requirements for its application in papyrology discussed. In a second part, GIS is used to study the migration flow into Hellenistic Egypt. The concept of distance per capita is suggested as an indicator for the economic costs of migration. |
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