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Matthew T. Kapstein Professor emeritus Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris Associate The University of Chicago Divinity School Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email. On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 9:20 PM, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> wrote: > It reminds me the beautiful Indian sculpture found in Pompéi, seen last week > in the MANNapoli. > > Envoyé à partir de [Outlook pour iOS](https://aka.ms/o0ukef) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > De : INDOLOGY <[email protected]> de la part de Lavanya > Vemsani via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > Envoyé : Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:11:04 PM > À : Indology List <[email protected]> > Cc : Indology List <[email protected]> > Objet : Re: [INDOLOGY] Spectacular finds > > This indeed is remarkable. Thanks for sharing it. This helps understand > Indo-Roman trade and the Egyptian role in depth. > Thank you > Lavanya > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 2, 2025, at 6:22 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Thanks for sharing this, Jonathan, >> >> It is indeed spectacular. But in the light of all else we know of >> Egypt-India connections over the long term, it does fit in an established >> context and seems spectacular in part for the remarkable confirmation it >> offers of relations formed on the ancient routes joining India to ancient >> Baveru and beyond. >> >> Matthew >> >> Matthew T. Kapstein >> Professor emeritus >> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris >> >> Associate >> The University of Chicago Divinity School >> >> Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences >> >> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein >> >> https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ >> >> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 >> >> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 >> >> https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 >> >> Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email. >> >> On Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I would like to bring to your attention what I believe to be the first >>> scientific publication of the results of recent research in Egypt. (Wait, >>> don't stop reading!). >>> >>> Along with Egyptologists, our colleague Ingo Strauch has researched a find >>> so remarkable that had it not been scienfitically excavated I think >>> everyone --myself first of all--would have been certain it is fake. >>> >>> See now >>> >>> Steven E. Sidebotham, Rodney Ast, Marianne Bergmann, Shailendra Bhandare, >>> Joanna K Rądkowska, Ingo Strauch, Szymon Popławski, Mariana Castro >>> >>> Indians in Roman Berenike >>> >>> Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 140, 2025, § 1–126 >>> https://doi.org/10.34780/n31wrw90 >>> >>> the abstract: >>> >>> This paper discusses six Indian, for the most part locally produced >>> artifacts excavated at Berenike, a Ptolemaic-Roman (third century B.C. – >>> sixth century A.D.) Red Sea port in Egypt. The objects include a terracotta >>> soldier, three stone Buddha statuettes, a stone stele with representations >>> of Vrishni heroes, and a dedicatory stone inscription in Sanskrit and Greek >>> from the sixth regnal year of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab (A.D. 248). >>> These artifacts were recovered in 2001 and between 2018 and 2022. >>> Excavations at Berenike began in 1994 and have documented thousands of >>> artifacts and ecofacts that attest the port’s impressive commercial and >>> cultural connections. Berenike was a critical link joining the wider >>> Mediterranean basin with the north- western Indian Ocean. The provenance of >>> recovered items ranges as far west as the Iberian Peninsula and >>> northwestern Africa to as far east as the island of Java. Ongoing >>> excavations have recorded numerous items from South Asia, especially from >>> India. Those discussed here tie Berenike to India and present a highly >>> unusual, in some cas- es unique insight into the Roman world’s connections >>> with the Indian subcontinent. >>> >>> It is good to know that in these sometimes dark times we can now and then >>> be amazed by surprising and glorious bursts of light. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> -- >>> >>> Prof. dr. J.A. Silk >>> >>> Professor in the study of Buddhism >>> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS >>> Herta Mohr building 2.142 >>> Witte Singel 27A >>> 2311 BG Leiden >>> The Netherlands >>> >>> Guest Professor, PI of ERC-Project BEST >>> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München >>> Department für Asienstudien, Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie >>> Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 >>> 80539 München >>> Deutschland >>> website: [www.OpenPhilology.eu](http://www.openphilology.eu/) >>> copies of my publications may be found at >>> https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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