https://www.academia.edu/38147247/Contacts_between_Egypt_and_India_during_the_Ptolemaic_and_Roman_Periods_An_Overview_of_the_Evidence
https://www.academia.edu/1467709/THE_ARCHAEOLOGY_OF_EARLY_CONTACT_WITH_INDIA_AND_THE_MEDITERRANEAN_WORLD_FROM_THE_FOURTH_CENTURY_BC_TO_THE_FOURTH_CENTURY_AD?nav_from=da599ed3-41a1-4d9b-b1b0-96386943fdf6 https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/crgr/documents/pdf/papers/iphigeniainindia.pdf https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/ Dan > On Dec 2, 2025, at 11:58 PM, Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> de la part de Lavanya Vemsani >>> via INDOLOGY <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> Envoyé : Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:11:04 PM >>> À : Indology List <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> Cc : Indology List <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > > -- > Ananya Vajpeyi > https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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