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

2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 314 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x00096058

1745-1744

Roberta Tomber,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

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.