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Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper

Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper

Tomber, Roberta
Simpson, Antony
Copeland, Penny

Paperback

Series: Debates in Archaeology

Business GeneralArchaeologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0715636960
ISBN13: 9780715636961
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: Nov 20 2008
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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