A Gateway from the Eastern Mediterranean to India

Marie-Francoise Boussac is Professor in Greek History at Lille University and Deputy Director of the French Mission at Mahasthangarh in Bangladesh. She is currently in-charge of excavations at Taposirisa Graeco-Roman site in Egypt, near Alexandria. She continues to edit Topoi devoted to the Mediterranean world and its linkages with Asia.

Preface by M.-F. Boussac and J.-F. Salles; Some Observations on F. De Romanis Approach: Remarks on F. De Romanis Book. The Egyptologists Point of View by J.-Cl. Goyon; A Fantasmatic Cinnamon by S. Amigues; An answer to J.-Cl. Goyon and S. Amigues by F. De Romanis; The Eastern Desert of Egypt and the Port of the Red Sea (unpublished updated contribution): Researches in the Eastern Desert 1996-1999 by H. Cuvigny; Greek Graffiti found in the Wadi Menih el-Her: A vestorius between Coptos and Berenike by F. De Romanis; Kinaidokolpitai mentioned on a Greek Ostracon from the Eastern Desert by H. Cuvigny and Ch. Robin; Quseir al-Qadim and the Location of Myos Hormos by D. Whitcomb; An Overview of Archaeological Work in the Eastern Desert and along the Red Sea Coast by the University of DelawareLeiden University, 1987-1995 by S.E. Sidebotham; Trade Patterns in the Red Sea: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Egypt and Long Distance Trade in the Roman Period: The Evidence of the Ceramics by P. Ballet; Ivory and Ptolemaic Exploration of the Red Sea: The Missing Factor by S.M. Burstein; Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea by S.F. Sidebotham; Archaeology in the Red Sea by C. Haldane; Literary Sources and Ancient Navigations: Anaxikrates Expedition in Western Arabia by S. Amigues; On the Hippalos Sea, following the Hippalos Wind by J. Desanges; Hypalos: Distances and Winds between Arabia and Indian in the Hellenistic Knowledge by F. De Romanis; Who used to Read the Periplus Maris Erythraei? by M. Casevitz. Travels to the Edges of the World: The Arab Trade through the Seven Travels of Sindbad by C. Allibert; Miscellanea: Review of C. Meyer, Glass from Quseir al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade, 1992 by M.D. Nenna; Review of A. Bresson and P. Rouillard eds, LEmporion, 1993 by J.-F. Salles; Review of H.P. Ray, The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia, 1994 by J.-F. Salles; List of Illustrations.