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Rome and Mesopotamia – importers into India in the first millennium AD
Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually ‘torpedo jars’ from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are mapped for the first time.
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Early Islamic North Africa : a new perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa.In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity.In North Africa, with continuity came significant change.
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Alive and well : the state of Roman pottery studies : \Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique,\ by Michel Bonifay; and \Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean : archaeology and archaeometry,\ edited by J M(a) Gurt i Esparraguera, J Buxeda i Garrigós and Ma Cau Ontiveros
Reviews two publications on late Roman pottery, \"Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique\" (British Archaeological Reports Ltd., 2004), \"Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean : archaeology and archaeometry\".
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Indo-Roman trade: the ceramic evidence from Egypt
Sourcing studies of the ceramics found at Roman Berenike on the Red Sea of Egypt show that India or the neighbouring regions supplied many styles and types of pottery. Key-words: Egypt, Roman, Berenike, ceramics, sourcing studies, trade
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Egyptian Amphorae in Britain and the Western Provinces
The tradition of amphora manufacture within Egypt is a long one, covering the period from Pharaonic times through to the Arab period and even continuing into the modern era. Throughout this time clays from the Nile and Delta regions were especially exploited to produce amphorae. Thus many of these large transport vessels from different periods share the same distinctive drab chocolate-brown fabric (centring around Munsell 10YR 4/4), enlivened by occasional plates of golden mica, small pieces of white limestone, and frequent elongate voids which once held organic material burnt out during firing. Interestingly enough, these same clay sources are still in use today.
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Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea
Interaction between the Roman world and South Arabia is well established from documentary evidence provided by the Periplus Maris Erythraei and other Classical texts, as well as published Roman artefacts (particularly pottery) from sites such as Timnaʿ, Qāniʾ and Khor Rori. Until recently, similar evidence for South Arabian artefacts has been absent from the Roman Red Sea. However, recent excavations at the Red Sea ports of Aila in Jordan and Berenike and Myos Hormos in Egypt have uncovered just such evidence, including rare graffiti on pottery. More common, however, is a range of handmade cooking pots and storage vessels, which on typological, petrological, and distributional grounds are likely to have originated in South Arabia. This paper presents the source evidence for these vessel types and discusses the significance of South Arabian material at three ports vital to Rome's trade with the East.
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