Editors’ Note

FROM THE RED SEA TO INDIA, THROUGH ARABIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF     ix-xi

1. The Egyptians on the Red Sea Shore during the Pharaonic Era

Pierre Tallet                                                                                                                            

2. Ship-related Activities at the Pharaonic Harbour of Mersa Gawasis

Cheryl Ward and Chiara Zazzaro

3. Living in the Egyptian Ports: Daily Life at Berenike and Myos Hormos

Roberta Tomber          

4. Al-Shihr, an Islamic Harbour of Yemen on the Indian Ocean (ad 780-2007)

Claire Hardy-Guilbert             

5. Indian Inscriptions from Cave Hoq at Socotra

Ingo Strauch  

6. ‘Places of Call’ in Madagascar and the Comoros Terminology and Types of Settlement

Claude Allibert            

7. The Port of Sumhuram: Recent Data and Fresh Reflections on its History

Alessandra Avanzini 

8. Ports of the Indian Ocean: The Port of Spasinu Charax

Jean-Baptiste Yon      

9. Towards a Geography of the Harbours in the Persian Gulf in Antiquity (Sixth Century bc-Sixth Century ad)

Jean-François Salles

ANCIENT PORTS AND MARITIME CONTACTS OF INDIA

10. The Ports of the Western Coast of India according to Arabic Geographers (Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries ad): A Glimpse into the Geography

Jean-Charles Ducène             

11. Ports of Western India in Latin Cartographic Sources, c.1200-1500: Toponymy, Localization and Evolutions

Emmanuelle Vagnon

12. Ancient Technology of Jetties and Anchorage System along the Saurashtra Coast, India

A.S. Gaur and Sundaresh     

13. Bharuch Fort during the pre-Sultanate Period

Sara Keller      

14. The Archaeological Project of Bassein’s Portuguese Settlement: A New Appraisal

Dejanirah Couto         

15. Mamallapuram, the Port City: New Revelations

Sathyabhama Badhreenath 

16. The Routes of Early Historic Tamil Nadu, South India
17. Selvakumar
18. Routes, Ports and Networks in Bengal: China Connection

Rila Mukherjee            

18. ‘Describing a Lost Camel’—Clues for West Asian Mercantile Networks in South Asian Maritime Trade (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries ad)

Elizabeth Lambourn 

RELATED AREAS: SRI LANKA, SOUTH-EAST ASIA

19. The Oldest Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean

Osmund Bopearachchi, Senarath Disanayaka and Nimal Perera           

20. Environment, Infrastructure and Nature of Ports in Ancient Sri Lanka: Archaeological Evidence from the Port, Monastery, Town and Shipwreck of Godavaya (Godapavata Pattana)

Oliver Kessler

21. The Citadel of Tissamaharama: Urban Habitat and Commercial Interrelations

Heidrun Schenk and Hans-Joachim Weisshaar       

22. The Inception of the Transnational Processes between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea from an Early City-State on the Thai-Malay Peninsula (Fourth-Second Century bce)

Bérénice Bellina         

FRENCH ARCHIVES

23. The French Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies Records of the Colonies Fortifications: India Files (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries ad)

Marie-Paule Blasini   

24. Portraits of Louis XV and Marie Leszczinzka by Carle Van Loo (Presidential Gallery, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi)

Jean-Marie Lafont      

Notes on Editors and Contributors 

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