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Ingo Strauch (ed.) Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient 3), Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2012, 589 pp. ISBN 978-3-934-10691-8. €98.00

Ingo Strauch (ed.) Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq... While exploring the Hoq cave on the northeast coast of the island of Socotra in December 2000, a team of geologists and speleologists led by Peter de Geest discovered a massive corpus of inscriptions and drawings left by ancient visitors from India, Africa, and the Middle East. The cave extends into the cliff side for some two and a half kilometers via a meandering path, along which were found eighteen distinct sites bearing inscriptions and drawings, with as many as 48 inscriptions at one site (no. 11). The 193 legible inscriptions in Indian languages and scripts vastly predominate over those in South Arabian (11), Aksumite (8), Greek (3), and Palmyrene Aramaic (1). In this volume, the Indian inscriptions are presented by the editor and principal author, Ingo Strauch, while the South Arabian and Aksumite texts are edited by Christian Julien Robin, the Palmyrene inscription by Maria Gorea, and the Greek inscriptions by Mikhail D. Bukharin. Geological and archaeological perspectives are supplied by Peter de Geest and Hédi Dridi respectively. The epigraphic material from the Hoq cave is of extraordinary significance for elucidating trade and cultural contacts between north Africa, the Middle East and India in the early centuries http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

Ingo Strauch (ed.) Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient 3), Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2012, 589 pp. ISBN 978-3-934-10691-8. €98.00

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Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 57 (3): 277 – Jan 1, 2014
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Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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While exploring the Hoq cave on the northeast coast of the island of Socotra in December 2000, a team of geologists and speleologists led by Peter de Geest discovered a massive corpus of inscriptions and drawings left by ancient visitors from India, Africa, and the Middle East. The cave extends into the cliff side for some two and a half kilometers via a meandering path, along which were found eighteen distinct sites bearing inscriptions and drawings, with as many as 48 inscriptions at one site (no. 11). The 193 legible inscriptions in Indian languages and scripts vastly predominate over those in South Arabian (11), Aksumite (8), Greek (3), and Palmyrene Aramaic (1). In this volume, the Indian inscriptions are presented by the editor and principal author, Ingo Strauch, while the South Arabian and Aksumite texts are edited by Christian Julien Robin, the Palmyrene inscription by Maria Gorea, and the Greek inscriptions by Mikhail D. Bukharin. Geological and archaeological perspectives are supplied by Peter de Geest and Hédi Dridi respectively. The epigraphic material from the Hoq cave is of extraordinary significance for elucidating trade and cultural contacts between north Africa, the Middle East and India in the early centuries

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