Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean
EDITOR – Marie-Françoise Boussac, Jean-François Salles, and Jean-Baptiste Yon
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- Year : 2015
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Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that ‘ports’ played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the ‘Indian Ocean’ and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean. The contributions focus on the nature of this knowledge, its history and status, using and combining new archaeological data and recent publications of textual material. They deal with material originating from the Red Sea to India, through Arabia and the Persian Gulf, shedding a new light on ancient ports and maritime contacts, with a special interest not only on India but on related areas as well, such as Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.
The Editors
Marie-Françoise Boussac, formerly from the French Archaeological School in Athens, is currently Professor of Greek history at Nanterre-La De?fense University, Paris. She has worked on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Bangladesh. She is the director of the French expedition to Taposiris Magna, a Graeco-Roman site near Alexandria in Egypt. Since 1991 she has edited the journal Topoi, issued from Lyon.
Jean-François Salles was a Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS. He started his archaeological career in the Near East, then moved to the Persian Gulf where he extensively excavated in Bahrain and Kuwait and co-organized a couple of colloquiums on the archaeology of the area. He was in charge of a research project at Mahasthan (Bogra) in Bangladesh between 1991 and 2013.
Jean-Baptiste Yon is currently researching at the CNRS. Speciailizing in Greek, Latin and Aramaic inscriptions, his research focuses on languages and populations of the Ancient Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, and Jordon) from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine times.
Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that ‘ports’ played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the ‘Indian Ocean’ and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean. The contributions focus on the nature of this knowledge, its history and status, using and combining new archaeological data and recent publications of textual material. They deal with material originating from the Red Sea to India, through Arabia and the Persian Gulf, shedding a new light on ancient ports and maritime contacts, with a special interest not only on India but on related areas as well, such as Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.
The Editors
Marie-Françoise Boussac, formerly from the French Archaeological School in Athens, is currently Professor of Greek history at Nanterre-La De?fense University, Paris. She has worked on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Bangladesh. She is the director of the French expedition to Taposiris Magna, a Graeco-Roman site near Alexandria in Egypt. Since 1991 she has edited the journal Topoi, issued from Lyon.
Jean-François Salles was a Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS. He started his archaeological career in the Near East, then moved to the Persian Gulf where he extensively excavated in Bahrain and Kuwait and co-organized a couple of colloquiums on the archaeology of the area. He was in charge of a research project at Mahasthan (Bogra) in Bangladesh between 1991 and 2013.
Jean-Baptiste Yon is currently researching at the CNRS. Speciailizing in Greek, Latin and Aramaic inscriptions, his research focuses on languages and populations of the Ancient Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, and Jordon) from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine times.
Table of Contents
| Editors’ Note FROM THE RED SEA TO INDIA, THROUGH ARABIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF |
ix-xi |
| 1. The Egyptians on the Red Sea Shore during the Pharaonic Era Pierre Tallet |
3-19 |
| 2. Ship-related Activities at the Pharaonic Harbour of Mersa Gawasis Cheryl Ward and Chiara Zazzaro |
21-40 |
| 3. Living in the Egyptian Ports: Daily Life at Berenike and Myos Hormos Roberta Tomber |
41-57 |
| 4. Al-Shihr, an Islamic Harbour of Yemen on the Indian Ocean (ad 780-2007) Claire Hardy-Guilbert |
59-77 |
| 5. Indian Inscriptions from Cave Hoq at Socotra Ingo Strauch |
79-97 |
| 6. ‘Places of Call’ in Madagascar and the Comoros Terminology and Types of Settlement Claude Allibert |
99-110 |
| 7. The Port of Sumhuram: Recent Data and Fresh Reflections on its History Alessandra Avanzini |
111-124 |
| 8. Ports of the Indian Ocean: The Port of Spasinu Charax Jean-Baptiste Yon |
125-136 |
| 9. Towards a Geography of the Harbours in the Persian Gulf in Antiquity (Sixth Century bc-Sixth Century ad) Jean-François Salles |
137-161 |
| ANCIENT PORTS AND MARITIME CONTACTS OF INDIA | |
| 10. The Ports of the Western Coast of India according to Arabic Geographers (Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries ad): A Glimpse into the Geography Jean-Charles Ducène |
165-178 |
| 11. Ports of Western India in Latin Cartographic Sources, c.1200-1500: Toponymy, Localization and Evolutions Emmanuelle Vagnon |
179-198 |
| 12. Ancient Technology of Jetties and Anchorage System along the Saurashtra Coast, India 199-215 A.S. Gaur and Sundaresh |
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| 13. Bharuch Fort during the pre-Sultanate Period Sara Keller |
217-234 |
| 14. The Archaeological Project of Bassein’s Portuguese Settlement: A New Appraisal Dejanirah Couto |
235-274 |
| 15. Mamallapuram, the Port City: New Revelations Sathyabhama Badhreenath |
275-287 |
| 16. The Routes of Early Historic Tamil Nadu, South India V. Selvakumar |
289-321 |
| 17. Routes, Ports and Networks in Bengal: China Connection Rila Mukherjee |
323-350 |
| 18. ‘Describing a Lost Camel’—Clues for West Asian Mercantile Networks in South Asian Maritime Trade (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries ad) Elizabeth Lambourn |
351-407 |
| RELATED AREAS: SRI LANKA, SOUTH-EAST ASIA | |
| 19. The Oldest Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean Osmund Bopearachchi, Senarath Disanayaka and Nimal Perera |
411-434 |
| 20. Environment, Infrastructure and Nature of Ports in Ancient Sri Lanka: Archaeological Evidence from the Port, Monastery, Town and Shipwreck of Godavaya (Godapavata Pattana) Oliver Kessler |
435-458 |
| 21. The Citadel of Tissamaharama: Urban Habitat and Commercial Interrelations Heidrun Schenk and Hans-Joachim Weisshaar |
459-479 |
| 22. The Inception of the Transnational Processes between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea from an Early City-State on the Thai-Malay Peninsula (Fourth-Second Century bce) Bérénice Bellina |
481-510 |
| FRENCH ARCHIVES | |
| 23. The French Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies Records of the Colonies Fortifications: India Files (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries ad) Marie-Paule Blasini |
513-523 |
| 24. Portraits of Louis XV and Marie Leszczinzka by Carle Van Loo (Presidential Gallery, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi) Jean-Marie Lafont |
525-536 |
| Notes on Editors and Contributors | 537-542 |
| Index | 543-559 |