Connected hinterlands
Subtitle: proceedings of the Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton, September 2008
By: edited by Lucy Blue ... [et al.].
Contributors: Society for Arabian Studies
Series: BAR international series -- 2052; Society for Arabian Studies monographs -- no. 8; Society for Arabian Studies monographs -- no. 8.; BAR international series -- 2052.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781407306315
Notes: "Red Sea IV was the first conference in the Red Sea Project series to be held outside the British Museum"--p. v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Ancient peoples of the Red Sea. Ancient polities and interrelations along the Red Sea and its western and eastern hinterlands / Kenneth Kitchen; title: History and use of an ethnonym: ichthyophágoi / Oscar Nalesini; title: The identification of the ancient pastoral nomads on the north-western Red Sea littoral / Hans Barnard; title: 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; title: Glass, glassworking and glass transportation in Aksum / Jacke Phillips; title: Adulis and the Eritrean coast in museum collections and Italian and other European travelers' accounts / Chiara Zazzaro; title: The linguistic situation on the Dahlak Islands in Eritrea / Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; title: 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; title: The roman port of Alia: economic connections with the Red Sea litoral / S. Thomas Parker; title: A Palestinian Red Sea port on the Egyptian road to Arabia: early Islamic Aqaba and its many hinterlands / Kristoffer Damgaard; title: ʻAmr B. Al-ʻāsʼs refurbishment of Trajan's canal: Red Sea contacts in the Aphrodito and Apollōnonas Anō papyri / Frank Trombley; title: The expansion of Muslim commerce in the Red Sea basin, c. AD 833-969 / Tim Power; title: Transcontinental trade and economic growth in the early Islamic Empire: the Red Sea corridor in the 8th-10th centuries / Maya Shatzmiller; title: 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; title: Textiles with writing from Qus̨eir al-Qadim: finds from the Southampton excavations 1999-2003 / Fiona Handley & Anne Regourd; title: Thieves or sultans? Dahlak and the rulers and merchants of Indian Ocean port cities, 11th to 13th centuries A.D. / Roxani Margariti; title: Jiddah: Port of Makkah, gateway of the India trade / William Facey; title: pt. 5. Travelling the Red Sea: pilgrimage, navigation and seafaring. Shipwreck, maroons and monsters: the hazards of ancient Red Sea navigation / Eivind Seland; title: Early Christian pilgrimages, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea / Walter Ward; title: Egypt's Nile-Red Sea canals: chronology, location, seasonality and function / John Cooper; title: João de Castro's Roteiro Do Mar Roxo (1541) / Paul Lunde; title: Trans-national practices and sanitary risks in the Red Sea region: the case of the pilgrimage to Mecca / Sofiane Bouhdiba.