Worlds apart trading together : the organisation of long-distance trade between Rome and India in antiquity /

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This text sets out to replace the outdated notion of 'Indo-Roman trade', integrating new findings from the last 30 years. Analysis conducted demonstrates that highly substantial levels of trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st-6th c. altering consumption...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grønlund Evers, Kasper (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2017.
Colección:Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 32.
Temas:
To 1000
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Commerce
Economic history
Rome > Commerce > India.
India > Commerce > Rome.
Rome > Antiquities.
India > Antiquities.
Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
India > Economic conditions > To 1000.
Rome > Antiquités.
Inde > Antiquités.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 30 av. J.-C.-476.
Inde > Conditions économiques > Jusqu'à 1200.
India
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright Page
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • A brief historiography of Indo-Roman trade
  • What's in a name?
  • Chapter 2
  • Ancient history 'from below'
  • Theoretical perspectives
  • Chapter 3
  • Turning the tables on Indo-Roman trade
  • The collegium of ivory- and citrus wood traders
  • Beyond the mirror: the cultural biography of an ivory statuette
  • Fitting Indian ivory with Roman furniture
  • The shreni of ivory carvers
  • Following the flows of people and products, fashion and furniture
  • Figure 1
  • Inscription of the collegium of negotiatores eborarii et citriarii
  • CIL VI, 33,885. Source: Borsari 1887: pl. 1.
  • Figure 2
  • Figure 3
  • Ivory statuette from Pompeii, front
  • height 24.5 cm. Museo archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, in the 'Gabinetto Segreto,' inv.no. 149425. Photograph by the author.
  • Same as Figure 2, back. Photograph by the author.
  • Figure 4
  • Same as Figure 2, detail of hole penetrating the crown of the head down to the waist. Photograph by the author.
  • Drawing of Pompeii figurine's base. Source: Maiuri 1938-9: 112, fig. 1.
  • Figure 5
  • Begram ivory statuette, height 45 cm
  • Hackin 1939: no. 320a. Source: Hackin 1954: fig. 234.
  • Begram ivory statuette, height 45.6 cm
  • Hackin 1939: no. 320b. Source: Hackin 1954: fig. 235.
  • Figure 6
  • Figure 7
  • Figure 8
  • Ivory statuette encased in ivory frame at Begram. Source: Hackin 1939: fig. 75 (no. 320a in situ).
  • Elephant-headed ivory leg from Begram, height 26 cm
  • Hackin 1939: no. 342. Source: Hackin 1939: fig. 229.
  • Figure 9
  • Elephant-headed bed legs, stone relief from Gandhara. Source: Marshall 1960: pl. 91, fig. 127. Copyright: Cambridge University Press.
  • Figure 10
  • Drawing of detail from mural in Ajanta Cave 1, cf. Takata 1971: pl. 89.
  • Figure 11
  • Drawing of detail from mural in Ajanta Cave 17, cf. Takata 1971: pl. 36.
  • Figure 12
  • Figure 13
  • Wooden, three-legged Roman table form Herculaneum, animal legs and griffins' heads with ivory eyes (= Mols 1999: cat.no. 18). Copyright: S. Mols.
  • Figure 14
  • Roman bronze table converted into brazier. Source: Pernice 1908: 108, fig. 1.
  • Figure 15
  • Wooden armrest support from Loulan, Xinjiang. Source: Stein 1921, IV: pl. XXXIV.
  • Figure 16
  • Ivory faun from the Naples area, approximate height 20-5 cm. In Museo archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, 1st floor, room LXXXVIII, 'La collezione degli oggetti in avorio ed osso.' Photograph by the author.
  • Chapter 4
  • The invisible hand of Roman organisations
  • The collegium of goldsmiths and clusters of craftsmen in the jewellery trade
  • The collegium of frankincense and perfume traders
  • The collegium of spice traders and the Pepper Warehouses
  • The organisation of silk-weavers and traders
  • Organising the world of consumption
  • Chapter 5
  • Demand and supply in Rome and the provinces

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