Indian Inscriptions from the Cave Hoq on Suqutra (Yemen)
Abstract/Sommario:
In the last few years one of the most exciting discoveries in Indian epigraphy is the corpus of Brahmi inscriptions from the Hoq Cave on the island of Sukutra (Yemen), situated 320 km. away from the African coast. As early as the first century AD the imprtance of Suqutra as an intermediary station in sea-trading activitie between the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean world is clearly attested. From that time onwards we possess continuos evindence of the presence of Indians on t ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Indian Inscriptions from the Cave Hoq on Suqutra (Yemen)/ Ingo Strauch and Michael D. Bukharin |
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IN Per: Annali, vol. 64 (2004) p. 121-138 : ill.
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| ID scheda | 58254 |