We have a book coming out on this subject next year to be published by Brepols. 
It will be called « Moving (Indian) Images in the First Millennium » (or 
something similar) and is the product of a seminar series I designed and 
co-organized at NYU-ISAW in 2021-2022 called « Indian Ocean Figures that Sailed 
Away <https://isaw.nyu.edu/research/io-figures> ». The supporting website is 
active if you’d like to learn more.  Please look out for the book which 
features essays from participants in the series.  

All best wishes,
Divya

--
Divya Kumar-Dumas, PhD <https://arthistory.umd.edu/directory/divya-kumar-dumas>
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow 
Department of Art History & Archaeology  
University of Maryland, College Park 
Pronouns: she/her

Research Associate | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), NYU | 
[email protected]   
<https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/affiliates/research-associates/divya-kumar-dumas>
Managing Editor | Gardens of the Roman Empire   
<https://roman-gardens.github.io/people/>


On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM Michael Brattus Jones via INDOLOGY 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> There was a cover article on this in the July/August 2024 issue of 
> Smithsonian magazine. It mentions both the statue and the inscription, with 
> photographs. 
> 
> Using the link below, I seemed to be able to access the full text of the 
> article along with at least some of the photos, without triggering the 
> paywall for their subscribers’ archive. I assume the physical copy would be 
> widely available at libraries in any case. 
> 
> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/
>  
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.smithsonianmag.com_history_hidden-2Dancient-2Degyptian-2Dport-2Dreveals-2D180984485_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=nXwPESlE61xrzlhoYUJx1uAek46i-lB-QYxrkc5wdgI&e=>
> 
> Enjoy!!
> Mike B. Jones
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 2, 2022, at 10:15 AM, Richard G. Salomon via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks to Charlie and all the others who responded to my query about the 
> Sanskrit inscription from Egypt. I don't have time right now to look closely 
> at it, but this does seem to be the real deal. Very interesting!
> 
> Rich Salomon
> 
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 12:30 AM Charles DiSimone via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Dear Rich,
>> 
>> The talk alluded to in the Facebook post Madhav appears to be here 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.carc.ox.ac.uk_GandharaConnections_webcasts-3Ffbclid-3DIwAR1Annmu8GN0F8gkN1BYeB5FPXkXtQk0wQnJNWp8ljuMFEfYi9RwBJUq-5FNQ&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=UfTdhpbszF97NP_YSKZkj389AGYCFb9xVBnFULBmj30&e=>
>>  in session 5 of the Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context: international 
>> workshop: Dr Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum), and Martina Stoye 
>> (Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin, SMB, SPK)Indian Dedications at Berenike 
>> on the Red Sea. There's a video available but I have always found the 
>> Gandhāra Connections website to be very finicky and have not been able to 
>> get it to play on my computer but only on my phone. Hopefully you have more 
>> luck!
>> 
>> All my best,
>> Charlie
>> 
>> Dr. Charles DiSimone
>> Department of Languages and Cultures
>> Ghent University
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 9:24 AM Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Excavations have been carried out at Berenike from the early 1990s under 
>>> Steven Sidebotham, who in 2011 published the following book:
>>> Sidebotham, Steven E., 2011. Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route. 
>>> (The California World History Library 18.) Berkeley: University of 
>>> California Press. xviii, 434 pp., ill. 
>>> Steven E. Sidebotham is Professor of History at the University of Delaware, 
>>> email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Asko
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2. Jul 2022, at 1.23, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Dear Rich,
>>>> 
>>>>      I see a March 29 message on FaceBook by Shailen Bhandare:
>>>> 
>>>> "The recording of our presentation on interesting "transcultural" findings 
>>>> from the excavations at Berenike is now on-line. I present an exciting 
>>>> discovery - the first ever Sanskrit inscription found in Egypt, dated in 
>>>> the reign of Roman Emperor Philip 'the Arab'! It is a dedicatory 
>>>> inscription left by a Kshatriya named Vasula, and undoubtedly of a 
>>>> Buddhist nature as indicated by its colophon. Thanks again to Steve 
>>>> Sidebotham and Team Berenike!"
>>>> 
>>>> Shailen Bhandare will be the best source of information on this topic.
>>>> 
>>>> Madhav
>>>> 
>>>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>>>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
>>>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>>>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>>>> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>>>> 
>>>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 1:13 PM Richard G. Salomon via INDOLOGY 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some weeks ago I saw a reference on Facebook to the recent discovery of a 
>>>>> Sanskrit inscription in Egypt, said to be dated to the reign of the Roman 
>>>>> emperor Philip "the Arab" (244-249 CE). But I haven't been able to find 
>>>>> any further information about this. Has anyone heard any more about this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rich Salomon
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=>
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology 
>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology 
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=>
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> INDOLOGY mailing list
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwQFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> INDOLOGY mailing list
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwICAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=LzvuC9SPEZxHYuxsbVmB5nrmCDt7wrWJSst0OuH2N2NMdJMijkgSvttY4-DsswBv&s=EmnWLjD6JciuXZ5DkYHo7M96-rB6YGJk3aeMzdTN1II&e=



_______________________________________________
INDOLOGY mailing list
[email protected]
https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology

Reply via email to