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Title:Trade Relations : in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity -- The Ceramic Evidence
Series:(Halicarnassian Studies, Volume 3)
Author:Maria Berg Briese & Leif Erik Vaag (eds)
ISBN:8778389585 : 9788778389589
Illustrations:b/w photos & illus
Format:Hardback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:256
Weight: 1.24 Kg.
Published:University Press of Southern Denmark - January 2002
List Price: 21.25 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:European history: BCE to c500 CE: ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Greece: Ancient Rome


This book focuses on trade and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, and discusses the extent to which these mechanisms can be traced from the ceramic evidence. Research in the Western Mediterranean has already yielded results that enable us to put forward theories of, not only trade patterns and trade mechanisms, but also more complex theories of the socio-economic realities of the Roman empire. In the West this has been made possible through the understanding of the different pottery sequences, through published kiln sites, through quantification of pottery and through revealed shipwrecks. However, things are different in the still less well-documented East, and it is of utmost importance that we now turn to this less explored part of the ancient world in order to gain a more profound understanding of the ancient trade. In the winter of 1998 junior and senior scholars of classical archaeology discussed the matter at an international seminar at Sandbjerg Manorhouse in Denmark. This book contains the contributions of this fruitful meeting.