A centurion’s monkey? Companion animals for the social elite in an Egyptian port on the fringes of the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd c. CE
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DOI: 10.1017/s1047759425100445
Abstract: Monkeys kept as exotic pets by wealthy Romans have hitherto been determined as African species exclusively, specifically Barbary macaques, in the few documented cases of monkey skeletons. This has now been revised following the discovery… read more here.
Keywords: port; centurion monkey; monkey companion; companion animals ... See more keywords