Posted on 09/12/2004 7:55:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Periplus Maris Erythraei (or "Voyage around the Erythraean Sea") is an anonymous work from around the middle of the first century CE written by a Greek speaking Egyptian merchant. The first part of the work (sections 1-18) describes the maritime trade-routes following the north-south axis from Egypt down the coast of East Africa as far as modern day Tanzania. The remainder describes the routes of the East-West axis running from Egypt, around the Arabian Peninsula and past the Persian Gulf on to the west coast of India. From the vivid descriptions of the places mentioned it is generally held that the author himself traveled to nearly all the lands he describes. The final chapters describe the East Coast of India as far north as the mouth of the Ganges and include reports the author had heard of the uncharted lands beyond. The author"s pattern is to describe the lengths and conditions of the routes, the key emporiums and anchorage points, the disposition of the locals, and the imports and exports of the region. Because the annual monsoon winds were the key factor in making the voyage to India the author will at times note the month (in both Greek and Egyptian) in which one should sail from Egypt.
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The website is a great preliminary source, sort of an online encyclopedia written by Lendering.Scylax of CaryandaPactyïke was a part of ancient Gandara (eastern Afghanistan) and Caspatyrus, which is not mentioned in other sources, has to be somewhere along the river Kabul. Since Herodotus tells us in the next line that Scylax' expedition was a preliminary to Darius' conquest of the Indus valley, we can date this voyage after 519 -when Darius' rule was secure- and before 512, when India seems to have been part of the Persian empire. Scylax' voyage led him along the Indus, along the shores of the Indian ocean and those of the Persian gulf... He passed Maka (modern Oman) and circumnavigated the Arabian peninsula. We may assume that he had a special interest for the Arabian towns in Yemen, which were famous for the production of incense. After this, he sailed to the north, through the Red Sea, until he reached Suez. In the ancient world, Scylax' fame was great. A naval handbook from the fourth century BCE was published under his name.
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Inscription in Carian and Greek
Anistoriton ^ | 27 Dec. 1997 | (editors)
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Tamil Trade
INTAMM ^ | 1997 | Xavier S. Thani Nayagam
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At Empire's Edge:As is often the case at Roman sites in the Eastern Desert, and particularly at those such as Quseir al-Qadim where water was scarce, a large variety of amphorae was present. Some, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., were inscribed with Tamil graffiti in the Brahmi script and likely came from Arikamedu in southern India (not far from the modern town of Pondicherry). These constitute the first Indian Tamil inscriptions ever found in Egypt, and their discovery next to a small iron forge, raises the possibility that a small community of Indian merchants or metalworkers lived at Quseir al-Qadim. As further testimony to Quseir al-Qadim's role in Rome's trade with India, researchers found items typical of the east, for example, teak and cloth made from jute. [pp 82-83]
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Pliny the Elder also added a warning: "The subject is one well worthy of our notice, seeing that in no year does India drain us of less than 550,000,000 sesterces giving back her own wares, which are sold among us at fully 100 percent their first cost." Romans were not the only ones to comment on the nature of their trade with India. A Tamil poem from the second or third century A.D. includes the following passage: "The beautiful vessels, the masterpieces of the Yavanas [Westerners], stir white foam on the Periyar, river of Kerala, arriving with gold and departing with pepper." Despite the discovery in southern India of some six thousand silver denarii and gold aurei, which seems to corroborate these statements, scholars disagree about whether such an economic imbalance actually occurred. Certainly the Romans spent vast sums of money on Asian luxuries, but they might also have used a barter system. Roman amphora, pottery, glass, lamps, and other items have been excavated in India, Sri Lanka, and Arabia, and Roman beads (gold or silver, set in glass) have been uncovered in the Rufiji Delta of Tanzania... In addition, the Greek/Egyptian author of Periplus Maris Erythraei (Circumnavigation of the Red Sea) identifies specific places where bartering was or was not possible. [pp 88-89]
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Nope, it is very interesting. Thanks for the ping.
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