Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/10/saharan-and-trans-saharan-contacts.html …pic.twitter.com/CqGUbrglYx
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/10/saharan-and-trans-saharan-contacts.html …pic.twitter.com/CqGUbrglYx
The most southerly Latin inscription in the Sahara comes from Ti-m-Missaou, Algeria: http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epimap.php?p_lat=21.9038889&p_long=3.092500 … & http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epimap.html …pic.twitter.com/Dtfdv5az5Y
Items from c.3rd–7thC Kissi, Burkina Faso, sub-Saharan W. Africa, made w/ metal prob imported from Roman Carthage: https://www.academia.edu/3596759/Contacts_Between_West_Africa_and_Roman_North_Africa_Archaeometallurgical_Results_from_Kissi_Northeastern_Burkina_Faso …pic.twitter.com/U8UM0yYOGt
L5th–6thC rims possibly imitative of N. African Roman/Byzantine amphorae, found Tongo Maaré Diabal, Mali, W. Africa: http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Money_Trade_and_Trade_Routes_online.pdf …pic.twitter.com/siA8J4l6Zi
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Of course, Roman-era material+influences travelled equally far in other directions too, e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/778958558561959936 …
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Likewise, a 2ndC AD coin of Hadrian (117–138) found in northern Sweden, possibly associated w/ the ancient fur trade: http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/raa/3248/2010_187.pdf …pic.twitter.com/rCTO6kfcR0
Or a 2ndC pot found 250km west of Ireland in 1934, inscribed w/ C PISCI FAGI + a graffito of an otter: http://www.jstor.org/stable/297059?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/nD3oy87Kjm
A slashed gold coin of Augustus, minted in 19 BC in Spain and found at Pudukottai, India: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1216254&partId=1&place=39890&plaA=39890-3-1&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/RY56NYoBA1
hi, nice and thanks, do we have similar traces of Tamil sangam era or pre BC artifacts in western world or in Europe?
There are finds of Indian pottery at Roman Red Sea ports, including a storage jar containing 7.5kg of black pepper found at Berenike & Indian red-slipped cooking pots and casseroles...
wow, thank you very much, if that could be possible to trace libi, language etc...? Interesting!
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