Indo-Roman trade relations - Wikipedia
WEBRoman and Greek traders frequented the ancient Tamil country, present day Southern India and Sri Lanka, securing trade with the seafaring Tamil states of the Pandyan, Chola and Chera dynasties and establishing trading settlements which secured trade with the Indian subcontinent by the Greco-Roman world since the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty …
Roman Trade with India and China: The Lure of the East
WEB15 Jul 2022 · In “Christian Topography,” the sixth-century monk and former merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes described his sea voyage to India and Taprobane in detail. Around the same time, the Romans scored a massive coup by smuggling silkworm eggs to Constantinople, establishing a silk monopoly in Europe.
Ancient Contacts: The Roman Emperor and the Sinhalese King
WEBduring the time of the Periplus, Roman merchants still received Sinhalese goods mainly from Tamil intermediaries including valuable ivory, turtle-shell, pearls, gemstones and cotton clothes.22 Pliny reports that, ‘to procure pearls Indians go to the islands, the most productive of which is Sri Lanka’.23 Vast sums were
Taprobane: Ancient Sri Lanka as known to the Greeks and Romans ...
WEB8 Aug 1999 · Weerakkody argues that prior to the seventh century A.D., most information about Sri Lanka was acquired by Greek and Roman writers indirectly, through contacts with Indian merchants, envoys or missionaries.
Indo-Roman Trade - University of Oxford
WEBOxford Roman Economy Project Bibliographies: Indo-Roman Trade. 5 Cobb, M. A. (2015). ‘Balancing the trade: Roman cargo shipments to India’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 34: 185–203. Falk, H. (2015). ‘Indian gold crossing the Indian Ocean through the millennia’, in F. De Romanis and M. Maiuri (eds),
Crossing oceans: Interdisciplinary research and ancient trade …
WEB1 Apr 2022 · “ Reconstructing networks of trade and exchange in the Indian Ocean during the Early Historic Period: Case studies from Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka).” In Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean Regions and Muziris , ed. Mathew , K. S. , 31 – 52 .
Evidence of Indo-Roman relations - Archaeology News
WEB24 Feb 2023 · In their part, Roman and Greek traders frequented ports along Western and Southern India and the island of Sri Lanka, securing trade with the seafaring Tamil states and establishing trading settlements.
ROMAN TRADE ROUTES IN SOUTH INDIA: GEOGRAPHICAL AND …
WEBIn fact, merchants had two options (vide Map 1): either to take the maritime route, around Sri Lanka or through the Mannar Strait, between the Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka or to follow the direct transversal land route across the …
Classical Indo-Roman Trade: A Historiographical Reconsideration
WEB26 Nov 2013 · Perusing the political economy of the early Mediterranean exchange relations with the southern West Coast, the paper seeks to argue that the expression, ‘Indo-Roman trade’ popularized by Indian historiography is a misnomer, for what had happened was literally Roman trade with the East having India little or no role in it.
13 The India Trade in Late Antiquity - Oxford Academic
WEBMaking use of the natural dominance of the Persian Gulf, the Sasanians could intervene to exclude Roman merchants from the India trade, whether by negotiating agreements with trading partners in the subcontinent, from the Gupta in the north to the rulers of Sri Lanka in the south, or by direct naval or military action against Roman vessels.