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II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия 110 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 the silk route trade, only the iconographic evidence enhances our literary sources. 1 The best depictions of the sewn boats (whose main characteristic is the stitching of the outside planks instead of fastening them with iron nails) are those illustrated in the well-known manuscript of “Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt ”. 2 No doubt more iconographic evidence can be traced, as for example, the illumination of a sewn boat in anArabic manuscript of Zakariyā al-Qazwīnī (Fig. 1). 3 Finally, it is worth mentioning that the unknown author of the Martyrdom of Saint Arethas provides valuable information about the 6 th century Ethiopic ships in the Red Sea and their nautical equipment (see Appendix below). Appendix Description of the nautical equipment of the Ethiopian ships of the 6 th century sailing in the Red Sea 1. Text and translation of a passage from The Martyrdom of Saint Arethas . Greek text, ed. and French translation by J. Fr. Boissonade; 4 English translation by V. Christides. 5 Καὶ συναγαγόντες πάντα τὰ πλοῖα, λύσαντες τὰ καταρτίδια καὶ τὰς κεραταίας καὶ τοὺς αὐχένας, καὶ τὰ εὐμήκη λοιπὰ ξύλα, διεστοίβασαν δήσαντες σχοινίοις ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν πλοίων, ὡς νομίζειν ἐν θαλάσσῃ βλέπειν πόλιν μίαν καὶ οὐ διεσαλεύετο πλοῖον τοῦ ἑτέρου.Τὰ δὲ καράβια ἐπισυνάξαντες, ἔδησαν κάραβον καράβῳ εἰς εὖρος τῶν πλοίων… from the Excavations 1999–2003. BAR International Series 2286. Oxford, 2011. P. 179–205; Paine L. The Indian Ocean in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries // Tripati S. (ed.). Maritime Contacts of the Past. New Delhi, 2015. P. 37–53. 1 For the various types and names of sewn boats see Chittick N. Sewn Boats in the Western Indian Ocean and Survival in Somalia // The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration . 1980. 9.4. P. 297–309; Agius D. Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean. Leiden, 2008; Shaikh Z. A. A Study of the Sewn-Plank Boats of Goa, India // The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology . 2012. 41. 1. P. 148–157; Paine L. The Indian Ocean in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries. P. 48–51. 2 This manuscript is found in the National Library of Paris (Arab Ms. 5847). 3 Zakariyā al-Qazwīnī’s illumination of an Arab ship of the Indian Ocean with a clear depiction of the stern rudder, from his work ‘ Adjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt , Ms. B-370 (fol. 23r). Courtesy of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia. 4 Boissonade J. Fr. (ed.). Martyrium Sancti Arethae // Anecdota Graeca. V. Paris, 1833. Repr. Hildesheim, 1962. P. 55–56. 5 V. Christides. The Martyrdom ofArethas and theAftermath: History vs. Hagiography // Graeco-Arabica . 1999–2000. 7–8. P. 79–80.