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Agriophagians: Serenus the military prefect on “worthless wild animal eaters” of the eastern desert (122 CE)
Ancient author: Sulpicius Serenus, IPan 87 [i.e. Bernand 1972 below] = SB I 4282 = PH219404 (122/123 CE; link). Comments: That categorizing and characterizing populations in negative terms was not the preserve of highly educated literary elites who produced written ethnographies is amply confirmed by the evidence of inscriptions, papyri and ostraca. The participation of local military […]
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