Le cosiddette ‘croci di San Tommaso’. Una nota archeologica

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_8136
dc.contributor.author	Olivieri Luca M.
dc.title	Le cosiddette ‘croci di San Tommaso’. Una nota archeologica
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The question of Christian presence in mainland South Asia, although historically certain, is not archaeologically attested for the period before the Portuguese contact phase. Elsewhere the archaeological evidence is clear: in the Iranian and Central Asian area, in the Karakoram-Himalaya, but also along the Indian Ocean routes. The so‑called ‘St. Thomas crosses’, a traditional key point for the issue, can hardly be considered as supporting evidence for an early presence of Christian communities at least in South India. Research on these phases will have to move in other directions in the future, both by exploring the rich regional epigraphic corpus and by planning archaeological fieldwork.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-07-28
dc.dateAccepted	2022-11-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-694-7/le-cosiddette-croci-di-san-tommaso-una-nota-archeo/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-694-7/002
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-694-7
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Christian communities
dc.subject	Kerala
dc.subject	Mylapore
dc.subject	Persian Crosses
dc.subject	Saint Thomas
dc.subject	South Asia
dc.subject	Tabula Quilonensis

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Le cosiddette ‘croci di San Tommaso’. Una nota archeologica

Luca M. Olivieri Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The question of Christian presence in mainland South Asia, although historically certain, is not archaeologically attested for the period before the Portuguese contact phase. Elsewhere the archaeological evidence is clear: in the Iranian and Central Asian area, in the Karakoram-Himalaya, but also along the Indian Ocean routes. The so‑called ‘St. Thomas crosses’, a traditional key point for the issue, can hardly be considered as supporting evidence for an early presence of Christian communities at least in South India. Research on these phases will have to move in other directions in the future, both by exploring the rich regional epigraphic corpus and by planning archaeological fieldwork.

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28 Luglio 2023

Accettato

04 Novembre 2022

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06 Aprile 2022

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978-88-6969-694-7

Keywords: Tabula Quilonensis • Saint Thomas • South Asia • Christian communities • Mylapore • Persian Crosses • Kerala

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