CONTENTS Preface 7 References to Original Publications 9 Early Mediterranean Contacts with India: An Overview 11 ROMILA THAPAR The Date of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 41 in the Light of South Arabian Evidence CHRISTIAN ROBIN The Periplus and the Political History of India 66 GERARD FUSSMAN On the Name of the Hipalus (Hippalus) Wind in Pliny 72 SANTO MAZZARINO Rome and the Ndtia of India: Relations between 80 Rome and Southern India from 30 BC to the Flavian Period FEDERICO DE ROMANIS Romanukharattha and Taprobane: Relations between 161 Rome and Sri Lanka in the First Century AD FEDERICO DE ROMANIS The Dromedary of the Peticii and Trade with the East 238 ANDRE TCHERNIA Winds and Coins: From the Supposed Discovery 250 of the Monsoon to the Denarii of Tiberius ANDRE TCHERNIA Bibliography .277