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21); none of these or any other basic raw materials were imported by Barbarikon. In textiles, Barbarikon exported only silk cloth, which had come there from China (see under B 3 9 : 1 3 . 29-30); some kinds were supplied by Ozene (Ujjain) inland ( 4 8 : 1 6 . 1 4 - 1 6 ) but some surely must have been manufactured right in town. 2 0 Barygaza seems to have been a somewhat more sophisticated place, to j u d g e from the greater number of luxuries it required. Both it and B a r barikon/Minnagar imported clothing, but the latter was content with merely an adequate number of undecorated garments and a limited n u m ber of prints ( 3 9 : 1 3 .
And were probably manufactured in C a m pania (R. D e Puma in AJA 91 [1987]: 292). ). 17), money is included among the gifts to be given to the king of the land. 17. T h e inference to be drawn f r o m all this is that the merchants w h o m the Periplus addresses must have bartered at times and at times purchased, depending upon the region. In Africa they did some business with the resident foreign traders for which they had to have a small amount of R o m a n currency; perhaps the traders insisted on a certain number of sales in cash because they needed the money for buying in goods f r o m the Arabian or Indian ships that called at their ports.
T h e dates were based on the prevailing winds that vessels leaving from and returning to E g y p t would encounter (App. 3). T h e y reveal that some traders went the whole length of a route, all the way down the east coast of Africa to Rhapta or all the way across to India, but that some stopped short, at Adulis or Muza or Kane (App. 3, note 15). Very likely those that went all the way included stops en route; vessels heading for India put in at Muza or Kane or both before starting the long run over open water.