Just to say, we have been hearing a lot of very interesting things about Berenike here in Delhi in recent months, from both the writer William Dalrymple (in his new book, *The Golden Road*) and art historian Naman Ahuja (in various lectures and articles). All best, AV.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/indian-figurine-pompeii/ > > Matthew T. Kapstein > Professor emeritus > Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris > > Associate > The University of Chicago Divinity School > > Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences > > https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein > > https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 > > https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email. > > On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 9:20 PM, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > > It reminds me the beautiful Indian sculpture found in Pompéi, seen last > week in the MANNapoli. > > Envoyé à partir de Outlook pour iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------------------------------ > *De :* INDOLOGY <[email protected]> de la part de > Lavanya Vemsani via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > *Envoyé :* Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:11:04 PM > *À :* Indology List <[email protected]> > *Cc :* Indology List <[email protected]> > *Objet :* Re: [INDOLOGY] Spectacular finds > > This indeed is remarkable. Thanks for sharing it. This helps understand > Indo-Roman trade and the Egyptian role in depth. > Thank you > Lavanya > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 2, 2025, at 6:22 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for sharing this, Jonathan, > > It is indeed spectacular. But in the light of all else we know of > Egypt-India connections over the long term, it does fit in an established > context and seems spectacular in part for the remarkable confirmation it > offers of relations formed on the ancient routes joining India to ancient > Baveru and beyond. > > Matthew > > Matthew T. Kapstein > Professor emeritus > Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris > > Associate > The University of Chicago Divinity School > > Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences > > https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein > > https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 > > https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email. > > On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I would like to bring to your attention what I believe to be the first > scientific publication of the results of recent research in Egypt. (Wait, > don't stop reading!). > > Along with Egyptologists, our colleague Ingo Strauch has researched a find > so remarkable that had it not been scienfitically excavated I think > everyone --myself first of all--would have been certain it is fake. > > See now > > Steven E. Sidebotham, Rodney Ast, Marianne Bergmann, Shailendra Bhandare, > Joanna K Rądkowska, Ingo Strauch, Szymon Popławski, Mariana Castro > > Indians in Roman Berenike > > Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 140, 2025, § 1–126 > https://doi.org/10.34780/n31wrw90 > > the abstract: > > This paper discusses six Indian, for the most part locally produced > artifacts excavated at Berenike, a Ptolemaic-Roman (third century B.C. – > sixth century A.D.) Red Sea port in Egypt. The objects include a terracotta > soldier, three stone Buddha statuettes, a stone stele with representations > of Vrishni heroes, and a dedicatory stone inscription in Sanskrit and Greek > from the sixth regnal year of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab (A.D. 248). > These artifacts were recovered in 2001 and between 2018 and 2022. > Excavations at Berenike began in 1994 and have documented thousands of > artifacts and ecofacts that attest the port’s impressive commercial and > cultural connections. Berenike was a critical link joining the wider > Mediterranean basin with the north- western Indian Ocean. The provenance of > recovered items ranges as far west as the Iberian Peninsula and > northwestern Africa to as far east as the island of Java. Ongoing > excavations have recorded numerous items from South Asia, especially from > India. Those discussed here tie Berenike to India and present a highly > unusual, in some cas- es unique insight into the Roman world’s connections > with the Indian subcontinent. > > It is good to know that in these sometimes dark times we can now and then > be amazed by surprising and glorious bursts of light. > > Jonathan > > -- > Prof. dr. J.A. Silk > Professor in the study of Buddhism > Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS > Herta Mohr building 2.142 > Witte Singel 27A > 2311 BG Leiden > The Netherlands > > Guest Professor, PI of ERC-Project BEST > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München > Department für Asienstudien, Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie > Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 > 80539 München > Deutschland > > website: www.OpenPhilology.eu <http://www.openphilology.eu/> > copies of my publications may be found at > https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- *Ananya Vajpeyi* https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi
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