The Classical Accounts of India c13.46

c13.46

28. From Egypt it imports like Muza, corn and a little wheat,¹⁸ cloths for the Arabian market both of the common sort and the plain, and large quantities of a sort that is spurious; also copper, tin, coral, styrax and all the other articles enumerated at Muza. Besides these there are brought also, principally for the king, wrought silver plate, and specie as well as horses and carved images, and plain cloth of a superior quality. Its exports are its indigenous products, frankincense and aloes, and such commodities as it shares in common with other marts on the same coast. Ships sail for this port at the same season of the year as those bound for Muza but earlier.