Whitcomb & Johnson: Quseir al-Qadim

Quseir Al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report.

D. S. Whitcomb and J. H. Johnson.

Originally published in 1979.

The results of the first season of archaeological excavations at the small port site of Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea are presented in this volume. Archaeological evidence testifies to the importance of this port, then called Leukos Limen, for the Roman trade in the Indian Ocean in the first and second centuries a.d. After a millennium of abandonment, this trade was revived under the Mamluks (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries), when the trade reached East Africa, India, and China. This report presents copious illustrations of the artifacts of daily life in these two periods. A chapter by Martha Prickett presents the detailed results of a regional survey around Quseir and along the route leading to Luxor and the Nile valley.


Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report.

By Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson.
Originally published in 1982

SAOC 53. Glass from Quseir al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade. 

By Carol Meyer. 

Originally published in 1992.

This volume is the final report on the first and second century a.d. and thirteenth and fourteenth century Islamic glass excavated at Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The report not only describes the glass finds but also studies their distribution from the Red Sea to Arabia, East Africa, and India and raises some specific questions about the export of glassmaking technology and about the character of long-range trade in glass in both periods.