Roberta Tomber
Biographic Data
| ID | 327209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Tomber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomber |
| SIGNATURE | TOMBER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Early Islamic Torpedo Jars from Siraf: Scientific Analyses of the Clay Fabric and Source of Indian Ocean Transport Containers
This paper concerns Sasanian to Early Islamic period transport containers, usually lined with bitumen, known as Torpedo jars. Widely distributed throughout the western Indian Ocean, with outliers as far west as Egypt and to the east in Indonesia, they are an important marker of maritime exchange. Their area of production is thought to be central/southern Iraq or southwestern Iran, the latter in keeping with proposed bitumen sources in the region …
Under the Potter's Tree: Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday
This book presents fifty wide-ranging articles written by various international scholars in honour of Janine Bourriau. In date these studies range from the Predynastic Period to the Twentieth Century AD and cover all aspects of Egyptology. As is to be expected most deal with the topic for which Janine is most famous - ceramic studies. These include items on miniature pots, Aswan flasks, fish dishes, Bes vases, embalming caches, terracotta figurin…
Mariners and Merchants: A study of the ceramics from Sanjan (Gujarat) (Sanjan Reports Volume 1/BAR International Series 2231) by Rukshana J. Nanji pp. 241, 10 b&w figs and pottery line drawings, 4 map…
India, trade with
Between the first century BCE and at least the sixth century CE , Rome played an important role in Indian Ocean trade that was primarily facilitated through its Egyptian Red Sea ports. This trade was important both economically and culturally, as it built on the interest in India established by Alexander the Great's overland India campaign of 327–325 BCE , during which he traveled to the Indus from the northwest.
Rice temper: Technological solutions and source identification in the Indian Ocean
Late Roman Pottery at Amarna and Related Studies
Rome and Mesopotamia - importers into India in the first millennium AD
Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually 'torpedo jars' from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are…
Alive and well: The state of Roman pottery studies - Michel Bonifay. Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (BAR International Series 1301). viii+525 pages, 269 illustrations, 3 colour plat…
Alive and well: the state of Roman pottery studies - Michel Bonifay. Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (BAR International Series 1301). viii+525 pages, 269 illustrations, 3 colour plates, tables. 2004. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-651-0 paperback £52. - J.Ma. Gurt i Esparraguera, J. Buxeda i Garrigós & M.A. Cau Ontiveros (ed.). LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archa…
Locating the ancient port of Muziris: Fresh findings from Pattanam
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The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna
A detailed surface survey of the gabbro quarry and related facilities in Wadis Umm Wikala and Semna indicates activity in the first to second or early third centuries AD. Surface pottery found associated with quarry faces, loading ramps, related huts, skopeloi, a putative temple, a main adminstrative building and nearby hydreuma attest to intensive operations here contemporary with periods of early exploitation of the larger quarries of Mons Clau…
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan: The Fourth (1999) Season of the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Indo-Roman trade: The ceramic evidence from Egypt
that India or the neighbouring regions
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: The Third Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1998)
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
Quantitative approaches to the investigation of long-distance exchange
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Excavations at the Roman civil settlement at Inveresk, 1976-77
Antonine 1 structures include timber buildings and a stone furnace, while Antonine 2 saw rebuilding on a much grander scale with massive timber buildings and one stone building, all set on a grid with cobbled roads. Evidence of industrial activity may include production of a type of pottery unique to Inveresk. Other finds consist of iron tools, bronze jewellery, samian pottery and glass, some of unexpectedly high quality. A R
Rice temper: Technological solutions and source identification in the Indian Ocean
Indo-Roman trade: The ceramic evidence from Egypt
that India or the neighbouring regions
Locating the ancient port of Muziris: Fresh findings from Pattanam
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Excavations at the Roman civil settlement at Inveresk, 1976-77
Antonine 1 structures include timber buildings and a stone furnace, while Antonine 2 saw rebuilding on a much grander scale with massive timber buildings and one stone building, all set on a grid with cobbled roads. Evidence of industrial activity may include production of a type of pottery unique to Inveresk. Other finds consist of iron tools, bronze jewellery, samian pottery and glass, some of unexpectedly high quality. A R
Early Islamic Torpedo Jars from Siraf: Scientific Analyses of the Clay Fabric and Source of Indian Ocean Transport Containers
This paper concerns Sasanian to Early Islamic period transport containers, usually lined with bitumen, known as Torpedo jars. Widely distributed throughout the western Indian Ocean, with outliers as far west as Egypt and to the east in Indonesia, they are an important marker of maritime exchange. Their area of production is thought to be central/southern Iraq or southwestern Iran, the latter in keeping with proposed bitumen sources in the region …
Rome and Mesopotamia - importers into India in the first millennium AD
Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually 'torpedo jars' from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are…
Quantitative approaches to the investigation of long-distance exchange
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Excavations at the Roman civil settlement at Inveresk, 1976-77
Antonine 1 structures include timber buildings and a stone furnace, while Antonine 2 saw rebuilding on a much grander scale with massive timber buildings and one stone building, all set on a grid with cobbled roads. Evidence of industrial activity may include production of a type of pottery unique to Inveresk. Other finds consist of iron tools, bronze jewellery, samian pottery and glass, some of unexpectedly high quality. A R
Quantitative approaches to the investigation of long-distance exchange
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: The Third Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1998)
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan: The Fourth (1999) Season of the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Indo-Roman trade: The ceramic evidence from Egypt
that India or the neighbouring regions
The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna
A detailed surface survey of the gabbro quarry and related facilities in Wadis Umm Wikala and Semna indicates activity in the first to second or early third centuries AD. Surface pottery found associated with quarry faces, loading ramps, related huts, skopeloi, a putative temple, a main adminstrative building and nearby hydreuma attest to intensive operations here contemporary with periods of early exploitation of the larger quarries of Mons Clau…
Locating the ancient port of Muziris: Fresh findings from Pattanam
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Alive and well: The state of Roman pottery studies - Michel Bonifay. Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (BAR International Series 1301). viii+525 pages, 269 illustrations, 3 colour plat…
Alive and well: the state of Roman pottery studies - Michel Bonifay. Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (BAR International Series 1301). viii+525 pages, 269 illustrations, 3 colour plates, tables. 2004. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-651-0 paperback £52. - J.Ma. Gurt i Esparraguera, J. Buxeda i Garrigós & M.A. Cau Ontiveros (ed.). LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archa…
Rome and Mesopotamia - importers into India in the first millennium AD
Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire. Tracking down the finds of Roman pottery on the Indian sub-continent reported since then, the author discovered that many of the supposed Roman amphorae were actually 'torpedo jars' from Mesopotamia. Here the areas of influence of these two great imports, probably of wine, are…
Late Roman Pottery at Amarna and Related Studies
Rice temper: Technological solutions and source identification in the Indian Ocean
India, trade with
Between the first century BCE and at least the sixth century CE , Rome played an important role in Indian Ocean trade that was primarily facilitated through its Egyptian Red Sea ports. This trade was important both economically and culturally, as it built on the interest in India established by Alexander the Great's overland India campaign of 327–325 BCE , during which he traveled to the Indus from the northwest.
Under the Potter's Tree: Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday
This book presents fifty wide-ranging articles written by various international scholars in honour of Janine Bourriau. In date these studies range from the Predynastic Period to the Twentieth Century AD and cover all aspects of Egyptology. As is to be expected most deal with the topic for which Janine is most famous - ceramic studies. These include items on miniature pots, Aswan flasks, fish dishes, Bes vases, embalming caches, terracotta figurin…
Mariners and Merchants: A study of the ceramics from Sanjan (Gujarat) (Sanjan Reports Volume 1/BAR International Series 2231) by Rukshana J. Nanji pp. 241, 10 b&w figs and pottery line drawings, 4 map…
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Early Islamic Torpedo Jars from Siraf: Scientific Analyses of the Clay Fabric and Source of Indian Ocean Transport Containers
This paper concerns Sasanian to Early Islamic period transport containers, usually lined with bitumen, known as Torpedo jars. Widely distributed throughout the western Indian Ocean, with outliers as far west as Egypt and to the east in Indonesia, they are an important marker of maritime exchange. Their area of production is thought to be central/southern Iraq or southwestern Iran, the latter in keeping with proposed bitumen sources in the region …
Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Pottery (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Geology (5 works)