000			02009nam a22002177a 4500
005			20180513192947.0
008			180513b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780715636961
028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors. _b: 7/22, Ansari Road, DaryaGanj, New Delhi. _c: 1075875 _d04/05/2018
082			_a382.091 TOM
100			_aR Tomber _a; Antony Simpson _a; Penny Copeland.
245			_aIndo-Roman trade _b: from pots to pepper. _c/ R Tomber.
260			_aLondon _b: Duckworth _c, 2008.
300			_a216p. _c:18cm.
365			_b1834
505			_aIntroducing Indo-Roman trade -- Charting exchange through texts and objects -- Evolution of the Roman Red Sea -- Beyond the Roman world -- Lands to the East -- Changing scenes and forces
520			_a"This book brings together for the first time archaeological findings from key ports throughout the Indian Ocean - the Red Sea, South Arabia, the Gulf, India and Sri Lanka - to build up a balanced picture of relations between East and West. Combined evidence from artefacts and documents reveals a complex situation whereby ordinary goods were carried alongside the more costly items - such as pepper, aromatics and gems - that drove the trade. Here the focus is on ordinary artefacts used by Romans, Africans, South Arabians, Sasanians and Indians who participated in the trade. The evidence from ceramics, especially, reveals the interplay between these different ethnic groups, where they lived, when the trade was active, and even how it was organised." "The account is arranged geographically, drawing on new evidence from the author's experience of archaeological sites and materials on the Red Sea and in India. A final chapter sketches the changing fortunes of trade between the first century BC and the seventh century AD in the light of these important new archaeological discoveries."--Jacket.
655			_aCommerce. _bIndian Ocean Region _bAntiquities. _bExcavations (Archaeology).
700			_aR Tomber.
942			_cBOOK
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