Rome and Mesopotamia - Importers into India in the first millennium AD

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 314, 2007, Pages 972-988

  Tomber, Roberta ^a  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphorae; Coins; Dequre; India; Jars; Mesopotamia; Pottery; Rome; Sasanian; Torpedo

Indexed keywords

IMPORT; ROMAN ERA;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; INDIA; ITALY; LAZIO; MESOPOTAMIA; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 37448998663     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00096058     Document Type: Article

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