Transport Amphorae And Trade In The Eastern Mediterranean

Author : Jonas Eiring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean written by Jonas Eiring and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport amphorae were chosen as the theme of this colloquium because of their great potential for elucidating ancient economic history. As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us not with anindex of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the movement of certain foodstuffs which were of considerable economic importance.... It is hard to conceive of any archaeological material better suited to further our understanding of Roman trade. The same could be said with equal conviction about Hellenistic trade. However, while the study of transport amphorae was already an established discipline in the 19th century, it has traditionally focused on amphora stamps. Even in the 1970s, excavators in the eastern Mediterranean were still disregarding-and even discarding-unstamped fragments. Yet if amphora studies remain somewhat in the realm of epigraphy, they have also seen a great deal of activity in the last decade and drawn increasing attention from archaeologists, historians and other researchers. Jonas Eiring and John Lund are both classical archaeologists. Lund is a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

Author : Mark L. Lawall
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 9788771242133
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transport Amphorae and Trade of Cyprus written by Mark L. Lawall and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed as a stepping stone on the sea route between Europe and the New East, Cyprus has always been a meeting place of many cultures. Though rarely united politically through many millennia of history - and for extended periods subject to foreign rule - the island nonetheless managed to maintain specific and unique identities. This publication seeks to throw new light on important aspects of the economy of Cyprus between c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concerted study of the transport amphorae found in and around the island. These standardised containers of fired clay were commonly used for shipping foodstuffs from their places of production to the consumers in antiquity. Completely preserved or found only in fragments, such vessels are a prime source of information about the island's exports and imports of agricultural products, and ultimately about the fluctuations in the economy of Cyprus through a crucial millennium and a half of her history. The jars thus contribute both to our understanding of the changing intensities of Cypriot connections with other centres around the Mediterranean and to the documentation of regional patterning within the island itself.

Author : A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134992696
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediterranean Connections written by A. Bernard Knapp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

Author : Marlia Mundell Mango
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754663102
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries written by Marlia Mundell Mango and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers here examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical standard against which to measure diachronic and regional changes in trading practices within the area and beyond. To complement previous extensive work on late antique long-distance trade within the Mediterranean (based on the grain supply, amphorae and fine ware circulation), the papers concentrate on local and international trade.

Author : Hakan Öniz
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915173
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean written by Hakan Öniz and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean is designed to share the subject of amphorae which were found on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey with the wider scholarly community.

Author : Mark L Lawall
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877124333X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transport Amphorae and Trade of Cyprus written by Mark L Lawall and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed as a stepping stone on the sea route between Europe and the New East, Cyprus has always been a meeting place of many cultures. Though rarely united politically through many millennia of history - and for extended periods subject to foreign rule - the island nonetheless managed to maintain specific and unique identities. This publication seeks to throw new light on important aspects of the economy of Cyprus between c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concerted study of the transport amphorae found in and around the island. These standardised containers of fired clay were commonly used for shipping foodstuffs from their places of production to the consumers in antiquity. Completely preserved or found only in fragments, such vessels are a prime source of information about the island's exports and imports of agricultural products, and ultimately about the fluctuations in the economy of Cyprus through a crucial millennium and a half of her history. The jars thus contribute both to our undertanding of the changing intensities of Cypriot connections with other centres around the Mediterranean and to the documentation of regional patterning within the island itself.

Author : Anthi Kaldeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789925793501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amphorae from the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond written by Anthi Kaldeli and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darío Bernal-Casasola
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270632
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity (In honour of Miguel Beltrán Lloris) written by Darío Bernal-Casasola and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results of the RACIIC International Congress (Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference, Cádiz, 2015), dedicated to the distinguished Spanish amphorologist Miguel Beltrán Lloris. This volume aims to reflect on the current state of knowledge about the palaeocontents of Roman amphorae.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309780
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Economies? written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-distance trade under Rome is well-understood. But the importance of local exchange has not been fully explored. The volume investigates how inland regions could become prosperous in late antiquity, especially when not integrated in long-range trading networks. Robust local economies emerge, stimulated by both taxation and local market systems.

Author : Sean Kingsley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785700332
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity written by Sean Kingsley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time. Contents: New Rome, new theories on Inter-regional exchange: East Mediterranean economy in Late Antiquity ( Sean Kingsley and Michael Decker ); Urban Economies of Late Antique Cyrenaica ( Andrew Wilson ); The economic impact of the Palestinian wine trade in Late Antiquity ( Sean Kingsley ); Food for an empire: wine and oil production in North Syria ( Michael Decker ); Beyond the amphora: non-ceramic evidence for Late Antique industry and trade ( Marlia Mundell Mango ); The economy of Late Antique Cyprus ( Tassos Papacostas ); LR2: a container for the military annona on the Danubian border? ( Olga Karagiorgou ); Specialization, trade and prosperity: an overview of the economy of the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean ( Bryan Ward-Perkins ).