Food for the gods : new light on the ancient incense trade
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Peacock, David, 1958-
Williams, David Copeland, Penny. Bird, Joanna. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxbow,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 151 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 9 Datensätze |
| Online Zugang: |
Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction (David Peacock and David Williams); 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 Qana' 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); Bibliography.
