A Gateway from the Eastern Mediterranean to India : The Red Sea in Antiquity
By- Marie-Francoise Boussac and Jean-Francois Salles
(eds)
Published in association with
Maison De L’orient Mediterraneen, Jean Pouilloux
Inter-disciplinary studies about the connections
between India and the Mediterranean world in antiquity have been growing in the
last few decades. These have followed a range of
approaches. This book focuses on one segment of the maritime world geographically defined as the Red Sea and its surrounding areas. This regional perspective is necessary to understand the dynamics of exchange.
approaches. This book focuses on one segment of the maritime world geographically defined as the Red Sea and its surrounding areas. This regional perspective is necessary to understand the dynamics of exchange.
A large number of texts in Greek and Latin, papyri,
ostraca, stone inscriptions, archaeological excavations and surveys especially
at sites such as Berenike and Myos Hormos provide a wealth of data on
historical development in the Red Sea region.
Contributors to this volume are drawn from a variety
of disciplines such as philology, Egyptology, African studies, archaeology and
ancient history and base their papers on recent discoveries as well as
re-interpretation of textual sources.
Many of these papers first appeared in issues of the
French journal Topoi but on account of their importance to maritime history of
the Indian Ocean it was decided to publish them for a wider audience.
M.-F. Boussac is Professor in Greek History at Lille
University and Deputy Director of the French Mission at Mahasthangarh in
Bangladesh. She is currently in-charge of excavations at Taposiris—a
Graeco-Roman site in Egypt, near Alexandria. She continues to edit Topoi
devoted to the Mediterranean world and its linkages with Asia.
J.-F. Salles is Research Director, French National
Centre for Scientific Research and is now in-charge of the Jordan Branch of the
French Institute for Near East (IFPO, Amman). He was Director of Maison de
l’Orient Méditerranéen,
Lyon until 1999 and in-charge of the French Mission at Mahasthangarh in
Bangladesh until December 2004.
He has specialized in the archaeology of the Gulf,
especially from the mid-first millennium bc
to the mid-first millennium ad.
His publications include excavation reports on archaeological sites in the
Gulf, as also contributions to major international journals.
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