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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2021

SALT ROUTES IN SOUTH ARABIA AND AROUND THE RED SEA

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One of the main salt basins in South Arabia is located in the southern part of Yemen, along the edges of Ramlat as-Sabʿatayn. This basin, some 600 km long and 100 km wide, shows diapiric walls orientated northwest-southeast, from the Indian Ocean to the Jawf. The salt-mines follow a long line west of Ḥaḍramawt cliffs (Jawl) and north of Jabal al-Nisiyīn. Salt-mines are sometimes located at the tail of main wādīs, such as Wādīs ʿIrmā/ʿAṭf, Jirdān, Ḥammām and Bayḥān. Salt was probably a small-scale production, feeding a local and regional trade in antiquity. However, documents are too few in number to evaluate its value. Some inscribed palm sticks mention few quantities of salt, but they do not provide any indication of patterns of trade. In northern Tihāma, salt-mines around as-Salīf and Jabal al-Milḥ diapir lying approximately 12 km inland from the Red Sea shoreline, are known from medieval period. In the Afar depression on the western side of the Red Sea, salt traded to the high plateau was used as a form of currency.
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Jean-François Breton. SALT ROUTES IN SOUTH ARABIA AND AROUND THE RED SEA. George Hatke and Ronald Ruzicka. South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.154-174, 2021, 1-5275-6456-8. ⟨hal-03942864⟩
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