The Seytan Deresi wreck and the Minoan connection in the Eastern Aegean

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references: p. 83-89.In 1975, a team from the Institute of Nautical crographics. Archaeology excavated a pottery assemblage lying at a depth of approximately 30 meters in the bay of keyman Derek (Devil Creek), on the Aegean coast of Turkey east of Bodrum. Despite the absence of ship timbers, the location of the site, the uniform fabric of most of the items, and their distribution on the seabed indicated that the assemblage represented a shipwreck. The potted, comprising exclusively coarseware utilitarian vessels, may have served as merchandise containers and/or constituted trade items, while some may have held the crew' s food and drink supply. After conservation and preliminary study of the material, project director George Bass dated the wreck to the late Middle Bronze Age pointing to Middle Minoan as well as Amatolian influences on the pottery. While it is true that none of the Bronze Age analogues constitutes an exact parallel of any of the Sextan Deresi ceramics, later periods do not provide any closer counterparts. Recent excavations have brought to light material that supports a Middle Bronze Age dating and strengthens the case for the possibly Minoan or Minonmizing nature of the pottery. Additionally, recent work ill Eastern Aegean islands substantiates the tradition of colonization and intensive maritime activity by Minors in the region. Tile pottery from keyman Deresi may have been made in a Minoan settlement of the Eastern Aegean islands or a site on the Anatolian coast where Minors lived and/or traded

Histories of the Middle East

For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University

Networked spaces

The 34 articles published in this volume form the proceedings of the 9th Red Sea conference held at Lyon in July 2019, whose core topic was the “spatiality of networks in the Red Sea”, including the western Indian Ocean. In the networked space that the Erythra Thalassa never ceased to be, stable factors such as landscape, climate, and wind patterns have been constantly entangled with more dynamic elements, such as human activity. The contributors to this volume explored how the former were integrated into the countless networks formed by humans in the region, and how these were impacted by spatial constraints over the long course of history. This volume offers a wide range of stimulating contributions. The first articles are devoted to medieval and modern European sources on the Red Sea and its exploration, and to the networks of knowledge dissemination about the region. They are followed by papers relating to the main nodes, the ports and islands of the Red Sea. Several articles are then focusing on the agency of hinterland populations in the networks, and the relationships between the regions bordering the Red Sea and central powers that governed them, often from distant lands. Production and consumption networks are the subject of the next articles, to assess the extent and nature of exchanges and to shed light on the archaeology of circulations. The logistics of exploration, exploitation and trade in the regions bordering the Red Sea are then examined. The last series of papers focuses on regions where archaeological work started only recently: Somaliland, Tigray, and the Horn of Africa. Thanks to all the participants, whether they have exploited new data or re‑examined long-known material, the 9th edition of the “Red Sea Project” gave rise to vibrant debates, showing that the Erythra Thalassa remains an endless source of knowledge.Les 34 articles publiés dans ce volume forment les actes de la 9e édition de la « Red Sea conference » qui s’est tenue à Lyon en juillet 2019. Son thème central était la « spatialité des réseaux en mer Rouge », mais aussi dans l’océan Indien occidental. Dans l’espace connecté que l’Erythra Thalassa n’a jamais cessé d’être, des éléments stables, tels que le paysage, le climat ou le régime des vents, ont été constamment enchevêtrés avec des éléments plus dynamiques, comme l’activité humaine. Les contributeurs de ce volume ont exploré la manière dont les premiers ont été intégrés au sein des innombrables réseaux formés par les hommes dans la région, et dont ceux-ci ont été affectés par les contraintes spatiales au cours de l’histoire. Ce volume offre un riche éventail de contributions. Les premières sont consacrées aux sources européennes médiévales et modernes relatives à la mer Rouge et à son exploration, ainsi qu’aux phénomènes de diffusion des connaissances sur la région. Elles sont suivies d’études sur les nœuds principaux que sont les ports et les îles de la mer Rouge. Plusieurs contributions sont ensuite dédiées à l’agency des populations de l’arrière-pays dans les réseaux, de même qu’aux relations entre les régions bordant la mer Rouge et les pouvoirs centraux qui les ont régis, souvent depuis des contrées éloignées. Les réseaux de production et de consommation font l’objet des textes suivants. Ils évaluent l’ampleur et la nature des échanges et mettent en lumière l’archéologie des circulations. La logistique de l’exploration, de l’exploitation et du commerce dans les zones bordant la mer Rouge est ensuite examinée. La dernière série d’articles porte sur des régions où les travaux archéologiques ont commencé très récemment : Somaliland, Tigré et Corne de l’Afrique. Grâce à tous les participants, qu’ils aient exploité de nouvelles données ou réexaminé des documents connus de longue date, la 9e édition du « Red Sea Project » a donné lieu à des débats animés, témoignant que l’Erythra Thalassa demeure une source d’information inépuisable