This issue of BMSAES contains the proceedings of the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium, entitled Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond,
and Rudolfo Fattovich’s Raymond and Beverley Sackler Foundation
Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology, ‘Egypt’s trade with Punt: Recent
discoveries on the Red Sea coast,' both held at The British Museum on 2
August 2011.
Professor Fattovich’s contribution neatly
summarizes a decade of extraordinary finds at Middle Kingdom Mersa
Gawasis/Wadi Gawasis on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The colloquium papers
present other important, new fieldwork elucidating ancient maritime and
over-land routes connecting Egypt to the Levant, East Africa, Arabia,
Central Asia and India and dating from as early as the Old Kingdom
through the Byzantine period.
Julie Anderson, who organised the colloquium,
guest-edited the volume. Editorial assistance was provided by Tifffany
Chezum, Ruiha Smalley, Alice Springuel, Michaela Binder, Elisabeth R.
O'Connell and especially Topy Fiske.
Elisabeth R. O’Connell
Contents
Egypt’s trade with Punt: New discoveries on the Red Sea Coast
Rodolfo Fattovich
Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade
Rachel Mairs
From the sea to the deserts and back: New research in Eastern SudanAndrea Manzo
Ras Budran and the Old Kingdom trade in Red Sea shells and other exotica
Gregory Mumford
Ayn Sukhna and Wadi el-Jarf: Two newly discovered pharaonic harbours on the Suez Gulf
Pierre Tallet
Port communities and the Erythraean Sea tradeRoss I. Thomas
From the Roman Red Sea to beyond the Empire: Egyptian ports and their trading partners
Roberta Tomber
Building pharaoh’s ships: Cedar, incense and sailing the Great Green
Cheryl Ward
A preliminary assessment on the pottery assemblage from the port town of Adulis (Eritrea)
Chiara Zazzaro and Andrea Manzo
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