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Food for the gods : new light on the ancient incense trade /

Title
Food for the gods : new light on the ancient incense trade / edited by David Peacock and David Williams ; illustrations edited by Penny Copeland ; with contributions by Joanna Bird ... [et al.].
Publication
Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Books [distributor], c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Peacock, David.
  • Williams, David.
Description
xiv, 151 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The incense kingdoms of Yemen : an outline history of the South Arabian incense trade / Caroline Singer -- Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade / David Peacock, David Williams and Sarah James -- The port of Qana̕ and the incense trade / Alexander Sedov -- Frankincense in the triangular Indo-Arabian-Roman aromatics trade / Sunil Gupta -- Incense in Mithraic ritual : the evidence of the finds / Joanna Bird -- Incense and the port of Adulis / David Peacock and Lucy Blue -- Frankincense and myrrh today / Myra Shackley.
ISBN
  • 1842172255
  • 9781842172254
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library