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Rome and Mesopotamia – importers into India in the first millennium AD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roberta Tomber
Roberta Tomber*
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*Visiting Fellow, Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, UK (Email: rtomber@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk)
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Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually ‘torpedo jars’ from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are mapped for the first time.

Keywords

IndiaRomeMesopotamiaSasanianamphoraecoinsdequrepotterytorpedo jars
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 314 , 1 December 2007 , pp. 972 - 988
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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