Foreign sailors on Socotra : the inscriptions and drawings from the cave Hoq / herausgegeben von Ingo Strauch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strauch, Ingo, editor.

Series:

Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient ; Bd. 3.

Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient ; Band 3

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Socotra (Yemen)--Antiquities.

Socotra (Yemen).

Indian Ocean--Antiquities.

Indian Ocean.

Speleology--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Speleology.

Caves--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Caves.

Karst--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Karst.

Inscriptions, Brahmi--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Inscriptions, Brahmi.

Mural painting and decoration, Indic--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Mural painting and decoration, Indic.

Inscriptions, Indic--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Inscriptions, Indic.

Inscriptions--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra--Catalogs.

Inscriptions.

Cave paintings--Yemen (Republic)--Socotra--Catalogs.

Cave paintings.

Antiquities.

Yemen (Republic)--Socotra.

Genre:

Quelle.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

589 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bremen : Hempen Verlag, 2012.

Language Note:

In English, with a few contributions in French.

Summary:

Several years ago a group of Belgian speleologists of the Socotra Karst Project made a spectacular discovery. Deep inside a huge cave on the island Socotra they came across a large number of inscriptions, drawings and archaeological objects. As further investigation showed, they were left by sailors who visited the island between the 1st c. BC and the 6th c. AD. The majority of the texts is written in the Indian Brāhmī script, but there are also inscriptions in South-Arabian, Ethiopian, Greek, Palmyrene and Bactrian scripts and languages.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Materials / Ingo Strauch

Catalogue of inscriptions and drawings (Ingo Strauch, with contributions by Christian Julien Robin, Mikhail Bukharin, and Nicholas Sims-Williams) / Ingo Strauch

Site 1 / Ingo Strauch

Site 2 / Ingo Strauch

Site 3 / Ingo Strauch

Site 4 / Ingo Strauch

Site 5 / Ingo Strauch

Site 6 / Ingo Strauch

Site 7 / Ingo Strauch

Site 8 / Ingo Strauch

Site 9 / Ingo Strauch

Site 10 / Ingo Strauch

Site 11 / Ingo Strauch

Site 12 / Ingo Strauch

Site 13 / Ingo Strauch

Site 14 / Ingo Strauch

Site 15 / Ingo Strauch

Site 16 / Ingo Strauch

Site 17 / Ingo Strauch

Site 18 / Ingo Strauch

The archaeological remains in the cave Hoq / Ingo Strauch

The cave Hoq and the Socotra Karst Project / Hédi Dridi

India And Socotra / Peter De Geest

1.The Indian inscriptions from Hoq: the epigraphical perspective / Ingo Strauch

1.1.Genres / Ingo Strauch

Note continued: 1.1.1.Group A: Personal inscriptions / Ingo Strauch

1.1.2.Group B: Religious devotional texts / Ingo Strauch

1.1.3.Group C: Miscellaneous inscriptions / Ingo Strauch

1.2.Language / Ingo Strauch

1.2.1.Morphological features / Ingo Strauch

1.2.2.Phonological and orthographical features / Ingo Strauch

1.2.3.Lexical features / Ingo Strauch

1.3.Analytic tables / Ingo Strauch

1.3.1.Comprehensive list of Indian inscriptions / Ingo Strauch

1.3.2.Distribution of scribes / Ingo Strauch

1.3.3.Distribution of genres / Ingo Strauch

1.4.Index of names and words / Ingo Strauch

2.The Brahmi scripts of Hoq: the palaeographical perspective / Ingo Strauch

2.0.Introduction: some preliminary methodological remarks / Ingo Strauch

2.1.The Indian palaeographical background / Ingo Strauch

2.1.0.The development of the Brahmi scripts of Western India / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.Deccani scripts of Western India / Ingo Strauch

Note continued: 2.1.1.1.Early Western Deccani / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.1.1.Standard Early Western Deccani / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.1.2.Reformed Early Western Deccani / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.2.Mature Western Deccani / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.2.1.Late Satavahana, Western and Central Deccan / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.2.2.Post-Satavahana, Central Deccan and Eastern Malwa / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.2.3.Gupta-Vakataka, Central Deccan and Eastern Malwa / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.3.Southern relatives / Ingo Strauch

2.1.1.4.Comparative table of signs / Ingo Strauch

2.1.2.Gujarati Western Brahmi / Ingo Strauch

2.1.2.1.Early Gujarati Western Brahmi / Ingo Strauch

2.1.2.2.Mature Gujarati Western Brahmi / Ingo Strauch

2.1.2.3.Northern connections / Ingo Strauch

2.1.2.4.Comparative table of signs / Ingo Strauch

2.2.Hoq scripts with a determined geographical provenance / Ingo Strauch

2.2.1.Comparative table of signs / Ingo Strauch

Note continued: 2.2.2.Comparative analysis / Ingo Strauch

2.3.The Brahmi scripts of Hoq / Ingo Strauch

2.3.1.Comprehensive table of representative signs / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.Comparative description of individual signs / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.1.Initial vowels / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.2.Medial vowels / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.3.Consonants / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.4.Ligatures / Ingo Strauch

2.3.2.5.Numerals / Ingo Strauch

2.3.3.General features of the scripts / Ingo Strauch

2.3.3.1.Cursivity / Ingo Strauch

2.3.3.2.Individuality and diversity / Ingo Strauch

2.4.Summary: Provenance and date of the Hoq scribes / Ingo Strauch

3.The Indian participants of trade: the historical perspective / Ingo Strauch

3.1.Provenances, professions, ethnic groups, religious and official titles / Ingo Strauch

3.1.1.Provenances / Ingo Strauch

3.1.2.Professions / Ingo Strauch

3.1.3.Ethnic groups / Ingo Strauch

3.1.4.Religious titles / Ingo Strauch

Note continued: 3.1.5.Official titles / Ingo Strauch

3.2.Social and religious stratification: an onomastic study / Ingo Strauch

3.2.1.Formal aspects of name formation / Ingo Strauch

3.2.1.1.Composite names / Ingo Strauch

3.2.1.2.Hypocoristic names / Ingo Strauch

3.2.1.3.Simple names / Ingo Strauch

3.2.2.Religious and social implications / Ingo Strauch

3.2.2.1.Religious implications / Ingo Strauch

3.2.2.2.Social implications / Ingo Strauch

4.The Indian drawings at Hoq cave / Ingo Strauch

5.Socotra and the "Indian connection": facts and fictions / Ingo Strauch

5.1.Indians along the trade routes to the west: the historical background / Ingo Strauch

5.1.1.The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea / Ingo Strauch

5.1.2.Indians along the Red Sea and East African coasts / Ingo Strauch

5.1.3.Indians in South Arabia / Ingo Strauch

5.1.4.Periods and lines of trade / Ingo Strauch

Note continued: 5.2.Indians on Socotra: the archaeological evidence / Ingo Strauch

5.3.Indians on Socotra: the literary evidence / Ingo Strauch

5.3.1.Greek and Latin sources (3rd c. BC-6th c. AD) / Ingo Strauch

5.3.2.Arabic and early European sources (10th-15th c. AD) / Ingo Strauch

5.3.3.Indian sources (17th-19th c. AD) / Ingo Strauch

5.3.4.Excursus: The goddess Sikotari Mata / Ingo Strauch

5.4.The "Indian name" of Socotra: an academic myth / Ingo Strauch

6.The Indian inscriptions and drawings of Hoq: a summary / Ingo Strauch

Appendix I: The Gujarati stone inscriptions from Ras Howlef (Socotra) (Bharati Shelat) / Ingo Strauch

Appendix II: Inscribed stones from Delisha in the journal of Ormsby (Julian Jansen van Rensburg) / Ingo Strauch

South Arabia, Ethiopia And Socotra / Ingo Strauch

1.Sudarabiques et Aksumites à Suqutra d'après les inscriptions de Hoq / Christian Julien Robin

Note continued: 1.1.Inventaire des textes sudarabiques et aksumites / Christian Julien Robin

1.2.Datation / Christian Julien Robin

1.3.Index des noms et mots de lecture raisonnablement assurée / Christian Julien Robin

2.Suqutra dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie du Sud / Christian Julien Robin

Palmyra And Socotra / Christian Julien Robin

1.The Palmyrene tablette "De Geest" / Maria Gorea

1.1.The text / Maria Gorea

1.2.The script and the language / Maria Gorea

1.3.The date / Maria Gorea

1.4.The Author: Abgar son of 'Abe/i[š][š]emayya' / Maria Gorea

1.5.[Š]mmr: "sailor" or "emissary"9 / Maria Gorea

1.6.Abgar's God : 'lh' dy [š]rn / Maria Gorea

1.7."In the distress of my soul" / Maria Gorea

Appendix I: Description of the tablet and parallels (Hédi Dridi) / Maria Gorea

Appendix II: Radiocarbon analysis of splinters (Hédi Dridi) / Maria Gorea

2.The sea and inland trade of Palmyra / Maria Gorea

Note continued: 2.1.Palmyra: a trading centre on the routes between Rome and Persia / Maria Gorea

2.2.Palmyrene trade stations in South Mesopotamia, the Palmyrene sea-trade / Maria Gorea

2.3.Epigraphical evidence for the commercial activities of Palmyrenes / Maria Gorea

2.4.The inland navigation in Mesopotamia / Maria Gorea

2.5.Conclusions: Palmyrene traders beyond Mesopotamia and the tablet "De Geest" from Socotra / Maria Gorea

Appendix III: Remarks on the Egyptian branch of the Palmyrene trade (Hédi Dridi) / Maria Gorea

Appendix IV: Les Palmyréniens en Arabie du Sud (Christian Julien Robin) / Maria Gorea

The Mediterranean World And Socotra / Maria Gorea

1.The Greek inscriptions at Hoq / Mikhail D. Bukharin

1.1.The texts / Mikhail D. Bukharin

1.2.The authors / Mikhail D. Bukharin

1.3.The date / Mikhail D. Bukharin

1.4.The provenance / Mikhail D. Bukharin

1.5.The formulary / Mikhail D. Bukharin

Note continued: 2.Greeks on Socotra: Commercial contacts and early Christian missions / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.1.Early Greek contacts and the "Alexander connection" / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.1.1.Old Persian Skudra/Iskuduru? / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.1.2.Herodotus / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.1.3."The Alexander connection" in Greek and Arab sources / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.1.4.The expedition of Anaxicrates to South Arabia / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.2.The beginning of maritime trade contacts / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.2.1.Arrian / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.2.2.Agatharchides of Knidos / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.2.3.Eudoxus' adventures in Strabo's "Geography" / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.2.4."Arab" sea-traders on Socotra / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.3.The embargo over Socotra / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.3.1.Socotra and Qana' / Mikhail D. Bukharin

2.3.2.Socotra

the "sacred island" / Mikhail D. Bukharin

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-580).

ISBN:

9783934106918

3934106919

OCLC:

812253544