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

Körperschaft: Red Sea Project (Conference) University of Southampton)
Society for Arabian Studies
Weitere Verfasser: Blue, Lucy Katherine
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.
Umfang/Format: x, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: BAR international series ; 2052
Society for Arabian Studies monographs ; no. 8
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Rotes Meer
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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-ʻāsʼs 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.