In 2020, during excavations in the Wadi al-Ghozza in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, archaeologists from the French Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Desert of Egypt discovered a well-preserved Flavian praesidium. This small and unusually shaped fort, identified in ostraca found in the fortress as Berkou (Βɛρκου), lay along a track leading from ancient Kaine (Qena) to the imperial quarries at Porphyrites. The fort lay over the remains of a Ptolemaic village and incorporated elements from the water system of the older settlement. This article presents the results of those excavations, including an overview of the fort's architecture and associated finds, as well as a discussion of its role in the regional transportation and security network that supported Roman exploitation of the nearby porphyry quarries in the 1st c. CE.

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埃及东部沙漠贝尔库的早期帝国堡垒

2020 年，在埃及东部沙漠的 Wadi al-Ghozza 发掘过程中，法国考古团前往埃及东部沙漠的考古学家发现了保存完好的弗拉维安镨。这座小而奇形怪状的堡垒，在堡垒中发现的俄斯特拉卡被确定为 Berkou (Βɛρκου)，位于从古代凯恩 (Qena) 通往 Porphyrites 的皇家采石场的轨道上。堡垒位于托勒密村庄的遗迹之上，并结合了旧定居点供水系统的元素。本文介绍了这些挖掘的结果，包括堡垒建筑和相关发现的概述，以及它在区域交通和安全网络中的作用的讨论，该网络支持罗马人在 1 世纪开采附近的斑岩采石场。行政长官。