| Description |
1 online resource (472 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / K.S. Mathew -- 2. Reconstructing networks of trade and exchange in the Indian Ocean during the early historic period : case studies from Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) / Robin Coningham, Mark Manuel and Jo Shoebridge -- 3. Local networks and long-distance trade : the role of the exchanges between Sri Lanka and India during the Mediterranean trade / Ariane de Saxcé -- 4. From the Mediterranean to South Asia : the odyssey of an Indiana merchant in Roman times / Steven E. Sidebotham -- 5. Wars, trade and treaties : new, revised and neglected sources for the political, diplomatic, and military aspectss of Imperial Rome's relations with the Red Sea Basin and India, from Augustus to Diocletian / Michael A. Speidel -- 6. Roman ports on the Red Sea and their contacts with Africa, Arabia and South Asia : Acient literary and recent archaeological evidence / Steven E. Sidebotham -- 7. The port of Sumhuram (Khor Rori) : new data on its history / Alessandra Avanzini -- 8. South Arabian pottery outside South Arabia / Vittoria Buffa -- 9. Maritime trade contacts of Odisha, East Coast of India, with the Roman world : an appraisal / Sila Tripati, Sunil Kumar Patnaik and Gopal Charan Pradhan -- 10. Assessing the early historic Indian Ocean trade through ceramics / K. Krishnan and R. Ballavally -- 11. Ancient ports of Kerala : an overview / V. Selvakumar -- 12. International maritime trade : evidences from Vizhinjam excavations, South Kerala / Ajit Kumar [and others] -- 13. Examining the Hinterland and Foreland of the Port of Muziris in the wider perspective of the subcontinent's long-distance networks / Ranabir Chakravarti -- 14. Muziris and the trajectories of maritime trade in the Indian Ocean in the first millennium CE / Pius Malekandathil -- 15. A Muziris export : Schidai or ivory trimmings / Federico de Romanis -- 16. The Roman pottery from Pattanam / Roberta Tomber -- 17. Money matters : indigenous and foreign coins in the Malabar Coast (second century BCE-second century CE) / Susmita Basu Majumdar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Trade routes -- Rome -- History
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Trade routes -- Indian Ocean -- History
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Extinct cities -- India -- Kerala
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TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
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Classical antiquities.
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Commerce.
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Extinct cities.
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Trade routes.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Commerce -- India
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India -- Commerce -- Rome
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India -- Antiquities, Roman
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India.
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India -- Kerala.
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Indian Ocean.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mathew, K. S., editor
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| ISBN |
9781351997522 |
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1351997521 |
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9781315276823 |
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1315276828 |
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