Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity

Andrea Manzo is Professor of Archaeology of the Nile valley, Nubian and Ethiopian Archaeology at the University “L’Orientale”, Napels, and visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University. He has almost 30 years of fieldwork experience in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The archaeology and history of the marginal areas, man-environment relations, long distance trade, the cross-acculturation and emergence of social hierarchy in North-east Africa and the Red Sea are his main research interests.Chiara Zazzaro teaches Maritime Archaeology at the University “L’Orientale”, Napels. In 2006 she defended her PhD thesis about ancient maritime contacts along the African coast of the Red Sea. Since 2001 her research focuses on the study of ancient and traditional boatbuilding techniques, harbours and ports, navigation techniques and coastal environments, particularly in the Red Sea and Gulf area.Diana Joyce de Falco is a PhD candidate in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at the University "L'Orientale", Naples. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural heritage in Italy. She has worked as an assistant curator on several exhibitions and as a cataloguer of Jewish cultural heritage in Southern Italy.

• IntroductionAddress of President of ISMEO, Prof. Adriano Rossi, to the Participants to the 7th Red Sea ConferenceAdriano RossiDedication to Maurizio TosiBruno GenitoPart 1: Prehistory and Bronze Age1 Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: Organisation of an Egyptian Bronze Age Harbour on the Red Sea CoastKathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich2 The Rock Engravings of Boats of Sinai and the Pharaonic Maritime ExpeditionsPatrice Pomey3 Riverboats and Seagoing Ships: Lexicographical Analysis of Nautical Terms from the Sources of the Old KingdomSerena Esposito4 Marsa Matruh Revisited: Modelling Interaction at a Late Bronze Age Harbour on the Egyptian CoastLinda Hulin5 Sorghum Paintings from the Meroitic Cemetery of Berber and Possible Implications for the Dispersal of the Plant across the Red SeaAlemseged Beldados and Mahmoud S. Bashir6 Mapping Ancient Production and Trade of Copper in Oman and Obsidian in EthiopiaIoana A. Dumitru and Michael Harrower7 Timber-frame Architecture on Both Sides of the Red Sea from the Early First Millennium BCE: Recent Investigations of the German Archaeological Institute in South Arabia and Northern EthiopiaMike Schnelle8 Bronze Age Reed Boats of Magan and Magillum Boats of Meluḫḫa in Cuneiform LiteratureDanièle Michaux-Colombot9 Imports of Pottery and Glass Vessels in First Millennium CE South Arabia: Signs of Commercial and Cultural Contacts via the Red Sea Trade RoutesSarah JappPart 2: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Period10 Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, and in the Eastern Desert: 2011–2015Steven E. Sidebotham11 Exotic Cults in Roman Berenike? An Investigation into Two Temples in the Harbour TemenosJoanna K. Rądkowska and Iwona Zych12 The Great Temple of BerenikeMartin Hense13 Bead Trade in Roman Ports: A View from the Red Sea Port of Marsa NakariJoanna Then-Obłuska14 Looking for Leuke KomeMichał Gawlikowski15 The Greeks and the Arabian Coast of the Red SeaLuigi Gallo16 Nautical Archaeology Surveys Near Jeddah, 2012–2013, and Their Connections to the Study of Red Sea CommerceRalph K. Pedersen17 The Christianisation of Adulis in Light of the Material EvidenceSerena Massa and Caterina Giostra18 The Western Indian Ocean Interaction Sphere: Significance of the Red Sea and the Arabian/Persian Gulf Routes from the Mediterranean to India (First Century BCE–Third Century CE)Sunil Gupta19 Beyond the Boundaries of the Periplus: The Persian Gulf Route in the Supply to Myos Hormos and BerenikeRoberta Tomber20 Foreign Iconographic Elements in South Arabian Art: The Indian ContributionSerena AutieroPart 3: Modern and Contemporary Age21 Suakin and Al Khandaq: The Influence of a Sea Port on a River PortAhmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam and Husna Taha Elatta22 Collateral Roles in PilgrimageJacke S. Phillips23 A Life Shaped by the Sea: Maritime Heritage in SuakinShadia Taha24 Timber for Ships: Considering Wood Supply for Boatbuilding in Jizan and the Farasan Islands, Saudi ArabiaLucy SemaanBibliographyIndex