ヴォロゲシアのパルミラ商業植民地について

Abstract

In order to get goods from the East, the Roman Empire came into close political relationships with Palmyra, while the Parthian Empire had common economic interests with Palmyra also. But the transportation of goods through the desert deoended not upon Roman or Parthian merchants but entirely upon Palmyrene caravaneers. This is the reason why Palmyra became prosperous rapidly in the second and third centuries. This permitted the Palmyrene commercial settlement in Vologesia to become important and to sway the fate of Palmyra. Vologesia's importance arose from the fact that it was the place where two great parallel trade routes converged towards the West, one coming from the Iranian plateau, the other coming from the Persian Gulf.