Connected hinterlands : proceedings of the Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton, September 2008 /
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Language: English
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BAR International Series ;
2052.
Society for Arabian Studies monographs ;
8.
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Call Number: DT39 .P52 2008
Table of Contents:
- •pt. 1. Ancient peoples of the Red Sea. Ancient polities and interrelations along the Red Sea and its western and eastern hinterlands / Kenneth Kitchen • History and use of an ethnonym: ichthyophágoi / Oscar Nalesini • The identification of the ancient pastoral nomads on the north-western Red Sea littoral / Hans Barnard • pt. 2. The southern hinterlands: eritrea and Yemen. Patterns of trade in the Red Sea during the age of the Periplus Maris Erythrae / Federico de Romanis • Glass, glassworking and glass transportation in Aksum / Jacke Phillips • Adulis and the Eritrean coast in museum collections and Italian and other European travelers' accounts / Chiara Zazzaro • The linguistic situation on the Dahlak Islands in Eritrea / Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle • pt. 3. A transitional sea: the late-antique and early Islamic Red Sea. Roman policy in the Red Sea between Anastasius and Justinian / Dario Nappo • The roman port of Alia: economic connections with the Red Sea litoral / S. Thomas Parker • A Palestinian Red Sea port on the Egyptian road to Arabia: early Islamic Aqaba and its many hinterlands / Kristoffer Damgaard • ʻAmr B. Al-ʻāsʼs refurbishment of Trajan's canal: Red Sea contacts in the Aphrodito and Apollōnonas Anō papyri / Frank Trombley • The expansion of Muslim commerce in the Red Sea basin, c. AD 833-969 / Tim Power • Transcontinental trade and economic growth in the early Islamic Empire: the Red Sea corridor in the 8th-10th centuries / Maya Shatzmiller • pt. 4. People, ports and products: the medieval Red Sea. From the Tihamah plain to Thailand and beyond: preliminary analysis of selected ceramics from Quseir al-Qadim / Rebecca Bridgman • Textiles with writing from Qus̨eir al-Qadim: finds from the Southampton excavations 1999-2003 / Fiona Handley & Anne Regourd • Thieves or sultans? Dahlak and the rulers and merchants of Indian Ocean port cities, 11th to 13th centuries A.D. / Roxani Margariti • Jiddah: Port of Makkah, gateway of the India trade / William Facey • pt. 5. Travelling the Red Sea: pilgrimage, navigation and seafaring. Shipwreck, maroons and monsters: the hazards of ancient Red Sea navigation / Eivind Seland • Early Christian pilgrimages, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea / Walter Ward • Egypt's Nile-Red Sea canals: chronology, location, seasonality and function / John Cooper • João de Castro's Roteiro Do Mar Roxo (1541) / Paul Lunde • Trans-national practices and sanitary risks in the Red Sea region: the case of the pilgrimage to Mecca / Sofiane Bouhdiba.