Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots To Pepper - Couverture souple

Tomber, Roberta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0715636960 ISBN 13 : 9780715636961

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 account is arranged geographically, drawing on new evidence from the author's experience of 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.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Roberta Tomber is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science at the British Museum. She specialises in Roman and Indian Ocean pottery and is co-author of The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998), and author of Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper (2008, also published by Bloomsbury). She was awarded the Antiquity 2007 prize for her article Rome and Mesopotamia importers into India in the first millennium AD.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0715636960
• ISBN 13: 9780715636961
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 216