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Title:Transport Amphorae & Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean : Acts of an International Colloquium at the Danish Institute of Athens, 26-29 September 2002
Series:(Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens Series)
Author:Jonas Eiring & John Lund (eds)
ISBN:8779341187 : 9788779341180
Format:Hardback
Pages:300
Weight: 2.302 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - March 2005
List Price: 34 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:World history: European history: BCE to c500 CE: ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Greece


As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us "not with an index 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. The present volume attests to this renewed interest, with more than 40 contributions, primarily in English, describing current researches and indicating which avenues of future investigation will likely prove most fruitful.

Preface; Introduction; Les amphores méditerranéennes d’importation trouvées à Zeugma: présentation préliminaire; Stamped Amphora Handles from Bet-She’an: Evidence for the Urban Development of the City in the Hellenistic Period; Le commerce antique en Phénicie d’après les amphores locales et importées de Beyrouth; Importazioni di anfore orientali nell’Adriatico tra primo e medio impero; Un dauphin aulète sur les timbres amphoriques de Thasos; Ateliers d’amphores de la chôra égyptienne aux époques romaine et byzantine; The Use of Rhodian Amphorae in Hellenistic Graves at Nea Paphos, Cyprus; Early Roman Food Import in Ephesus: Amphorae from the Tetragonos Agora; Les problèmes actuels de la chronologie des timbres sinopéens; The Typology and Trade of the Amphorae of Sinope. Archaeological Study and Scientifi c Analyses; Establishing the Chronology of Rhodian Amphora Stamps: the Next Steps; Les représentations de vases sur les timbres amphoriques thasiens; Transport Amphorae from Euesperides (Benghazi), Libya. A Presentation of Preliminary Results; Regional Distribution of Transport Amphorae in Cyprus in the Late Roman Period; Amphorenstempel und die Gründung von Tanais; Ainos: An Unknown Amphora Production Centre in the Evros Delta; Knidian Amphora Chronology, Pergamon to Corinth; Archaeological Context and Aegean Amphora Chronologies: A Case Study of Hellenistic Ephesos; Fundamental Links in the Economic Chain: Local Ports and International Trade in Roman and Early Christian Cyprus; Amphorae from a Late Hellenistic Cistern at Pantikapaion; Oil on the Waters? Reflections on the Contents of Hellenistic Transport Amphorae from the Aegean; Un dépôt d’amphores thasiennes du IVe siècle av. J.-C. à Orgamé; Alexandria’s Long-distance Trade in Late Antiquity – the Amphora Evidence; Anfore e ceramiche fini da mensa orientali nella Sicilia tardo-ellenistica e romana: merci e genti tra Oriente ed Occidente; Un dépôt de la deuxième moitié du Ier s. de notre ère à Kition-Kathari (Chypre); Amphorae in the Roman West: Discussion and Research since 1989; Kouriaka again: Amphora Stamps from the Kourion Acropolis Excavations.

"Much more than just another volume of conference acts, Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean is an important landmark about the actual knowledge and future trends in amphora studies." -- Stephan G. Schmid, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, University of Montpellier, France.