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Myos Hormos - Quseir al-Qadim

Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea. Volume 2: Finds from the excavations 1999-2003

£98.00
Editors:
David Peacock and Lucy Blue Assisted by Julian Whitewright
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308630
Paperback:
390pp, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
Sub-series name:
University of Southampton Series in Archaeology, 6
ISBN 10:
1407308637
BAR number:
S2286
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
Between 1999 and 2003 the University of Southampton conducted excavations on the site of Quseir al-Qadim (western shores of the Red Sea), a place that had not been examined since the excavations by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicagoended in 1982. The new work was prompted by the discovery that the site of Quseir al-Qadim was, in all probability, not that of the minor port of Leucos Limen, as had been previously thought, but none other than Myos Hormos. This port, together withits sister harbour Berenike, articulated Rome's trade with India and the East. This second volume concentrates on the finds made during the excavation period and the volume concludes with an overview of what we now know of the nature and function ofthe ports of Myos Hormos and Quseir al-Qadim and a discussion of outstanding problems which can only be resolved by further work.

AUTHOR
With contributions by Lucy Blue, Rebecca Bridgman, Penny Copeland, Alison Cox, Rowena Gale, David Graf, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Fiona Handley, John Healey, Anne Macklin, Jacob Morales, David Peacock, Jill Phillips, Anne Regourd, Wilfried Van Rengen, Steven Sidebotham, Ross Thomas, Roberta Tomber, Marijke van der Veen and Julian Whitewright. Illustrations by Penny Copeland and Julian Whitewright.