ABSTRACT
The ancient Mediterranean Sea was shaped by small-scale trade and travel, or “cabotage,” as Braudel termed it. 2 By the early Hellenistic period, small boats carrying goods and people crisscrossed the Mediterranean Sea frequently, intensifying existing social and economic networks and enabling cross-cultural and inter-regional exchanges. As argued in this volume’s introduction, these trade networks simultaneously created connectivity and fragmented the Mediterranean into microregions. My interest here, however, is in exploring the agency that the products of cabotage, the texts and objects that traveled these routes, had in shaping devotee’s experiences of space and time in the ancient Mediterranean.
