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Rome and Mesopotamia – importers into India in the first millennium AD

Tomber, Roberta·2007·Antiquity
DOI 10.1017/s0003598x00096058
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Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually ‘torpedo jars’ from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are mapped for the first time.

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  • Roman ceramics and coins are the key artifact categories in South Asia, but other finds include glassware, imitation Roman coins, sculptures, lamps, jewelry, and various small portable objects.

    “Roman ceramics (Tomber 2007) and coins (Darley 2014, Suresh 2004, Turner 1989) are the key artifact categories in South Asia, but other finds include glassware, imitation Roman coins, sculptures, lamps, jewelry, and various small portable objects (Tomber 2013).”

    From Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Long-Distance Connections Across the Ancient Indian Ocean (2023) · cites this paper as Tomber 2007

  • By 2008, evidence of commercial contacts with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf had been recorded from 36 sites in South Asia in the form of Roman and late Roman amphorae and Mesopotamian torpedo jars.

    “By 2008, evidence of commercial contacts with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf had been recorded from 36 sites in the form of Roman and late Roman amphorae and Mesopotamian torpedo jars”

    From Archaeology of Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 300 BC–AD 700 (2014) · cites this paper as Tomber 2007b

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Authors
Tomber, R.
Venue
Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2007-12
Volume
81
Issue
314
Pages
972-988
ISSN
  • 0003-598X
  • 1745-1744
DOI
10.1017/s0003598x00096058
Cited by
41
References
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Language
en

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