This book brings together for the first time archaeological findings from key ports throughout the Indian Ocean - the Red Sea, South Arabia, the Gulf and India - to build up a balanced picture of relations between East and West. Combined evidence from artefacts and documents reveals a complex situation whereby ordinary goods were carried alongside the more costly items - such as pepper, aromatics and gems - that drove the trade. Here the focus is on ordinary artefacts that uncover a network of Romans, Arabs, Sasanians and Indians who participated in the trade. The evidence from ceramics, especially, shows the interplay between these different ethnic groups, where they lived, when the trade was active, and even how it was organised. The book is arranged geographically, drawing on new evidence from archaeological sites and materials on the Red Sea and in India. A final chapter sketches the changing fortunes of trade between the first century Bc and the seventh century Ad in the light of these important new archaeological discoveries.

Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots To Pepper (Debates in Archaeology)

Business & Money

Tomber, Roberta

International

Bristol Classical Press

A reference guide to nearly 200 fabric groups based on 650 samples, including imported and widely-distributed Romano-British wares. The standardised descriptions are based on macroscopic and microscopic criteria (at X20 and in thin section). Illustrated with 220 colour plates of fresh sherd breaks, with a select bibliography, listing of museum collections and discussion of the source evidence for each group.

National Roman Fabric Reference Collection

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Museum of London Archaeology Service

The ancient port of Sumhuram is situated about 35 km east of the modern city of Salalah, in Dhofar, the southernmost region of the Sultanate of Oman. The settlement was built on a rocky outcrop dominating the Khor Rori lagoon, about 2 km from the seashore. The site was founded in the 3rd century BC and abandoned in the 5th century AD. The site and the area of Khor Rori has been under investigation by the Italian Mission to Oman (IMTO) of the University of Pisa, directed by Alessandra Avanzini, during the last twenty years. Throughout its long history, Sumhuram was involved in an international network of commercial trades and contacts. Relations with Yemen, India, the Gulf, Egypt and the Mediterranean are attested by numerous small findings and a large amount of ceramic vessels. This book is a comprehensive study of the imported and local pottery of Sumhuram. A contribution by Roberta Tomber about late Hellenistic and Roman pottery completes and enhances the results of this volume. The discussion of the different types of pottery provides important new data about trade connections and maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean in the last centuries BC - first centuries AD.

A Cosmopolitan City on the Arabian Coast: The Imported and Local Pottery from Khor Rori. Khor Rori Report 3 (Arabia Antica, 12)

History

Pavan, Alexia

Ancient Civilizations

L'Erma di Bretschneider

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