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Connected hinterlands : proceedings of Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton, September 2008/

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Connected hinterlands : proceedings of Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton, September 2008/ edited by Lucy Blue ... [et al.].
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Blue, Lucy Katherine.
  • Society for Arabian Studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93034845
Description
x, 232 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
  • BAR international series ; 2052
  • Society for Arabian Studies monographs ; no. 8
Uniform Title
  • BAR international series ; 2052.
  • Society for Arabian Studies monographs ; no. 8.
Subjects
Note
  • "Red Sea IV was the first conference in the Red Sea Project series to be held outside the British Museum"--p. v.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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-ʻāsʾs 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.
ISBN
  • 9781407306315
  • 1407306316
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library