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Title Food for the gods : new light on the ancient incense trade / edited by David Peacock and David Williams ; illustrations edited by Penny Copeland ; with contributions by Joanna Bird [and others].

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxbow, [2007]
Oakville, CT : David Brown Books Co. [distributor]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 151 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / David Peacock and David Williams -- Incense kingdoms of Yemen: an outline history of the South Arabian incense trade / Caroline Singer -- Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade / David Peacock, Sarah Williams and Sarah Jones -- Port of Qana' and the incense trade / Alexander Sedov -- Frankincense in the 'triangular' Indo-Arabian-Roman aromatics trade / Sunil Gupta -- Incense in Mithraic ritual: the evidence of the finds / Joanna Bird -- Incense and the port of Adulis / David Peacock and Lucy Blue -- Frankincense and myrrh today / Myra Shackley.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Incense -- History.
Incense.
History.
Incense -- Rome -- History.
Incense industry -- History.
Incense industry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Peacock, D. P. S.
Williams, D. F., 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Food for the gods 1842172255 (DLC) 2007279344 (OCoLC)69486005
ISBN 9781782974451 (electronic book)
1782974458 (electronic book)
1842172255
9781842172254