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Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean regions and Muziris : new perspectives on maritime trade /

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The battle of Actium waged in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC to the Roman Empire opened up avenues for increased commercial contact between the Roman Empire, South Asia in general and India in particular and the port of Muziris was the premier trading post of India. In this volume, emine...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mathew, K. S. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Subjects:
Trade routes > Rome > History.
Trade routes > Indian Ocean > History.
Rome > Commerce > India.
India > Commerce > Rome.
Extinct cities > India > Kerala.
India > Antiquities, Roman.
Extinct cities.
Classical antiquities.
Commerce.
Trade routes.
India > Kerala.
India.
Indian Ocean.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Table of 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 exchanges between Sri Lanka and India during the Mediterranean trade / Ariane De Saxce
  • 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 [sic] 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 [sic] 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, 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, S. V. Rajesh, G. S. Abhayan, V. Vinod and Sujana Stephen
  • 13. Examining the Hinterland and Foreland of the Port of Muziris in the Wider Perspective of the Subcontinent's Long-distance Networks / Ranabit 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.