[Sca-cooks] A nautical Find detailing foodstuff cargo

[Terry Decker]

I don't know why they find the breadth of trade goods particularly surprising.  Some of the little tidbits gleaned from various records suggest that spices were being traded into western Europe (probably from Byzantium) which implies a continuing trade in spices between the Islamic states and Byzantium.  If you're doing spices, why not fill the hold with other moderately valuable, easily transportable items.

While the ship went down off Israel and had goods of both Islamic and Christian origin, the archaeologists don't give any clues to port of origin.  It is worth considering that the age of the vessel falls into the period of the Rahdanite traders (some of whom were Jewish) and conducted trade between Christian and Islamic kingdoms.  Not much is known about them or how extensive their trade was.

Bear

On 11/18/2020 10:53:48 AM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:
I thought this interesting if one wants to document foodstuffs shipped in period in the eastern Mediterranean. https://www.archaeology.org/issues/401-2011/digs/9116-digs-israel-shipwreck?fbclid=IwAR1XrzUitsJj-uTVRkcDmuPZSvnlLiSPwEmr3d1RFmGm1PuGbKJMVyIxbTM

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