Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity (In honour of Miguel Beltrán Lloris)

Proceedings of the Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference (RACIIC) (Cadiz, 5-7 October 2015)

Darío Bernal-Casasola, Michel Bonifay, Alessandra Pecci, Victoria Leitch, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Michel Bonifay, Alessandra Pecci, Victoria Leitch

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781803270630
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: History

Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity gathers together the results of the RACIIC International Congress (Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference, Cádiz, 2015), dedicated to the distinguished Spanish amphorologist Miguel Beltrán Lloris. The aim is to reflect on the current state of knowledge about the palaeocontents of Roman amphorae. With over 30 specialists from different countries, the text examines four elements diachronically throughout the Roman period up to the 7th century, with some insights on pre-Roman times: 1) the intimate relationships between amphorae and their contents, from an interdisciplinary perspective (from tituli picti to the evidence from underwater sites, including the problems of reuse); 2) the contribution and current state of knowledge concerning archaeometric approaches (especially organic residue analysis); 3) the evidence at regional / provincial level (from Lusitania to Egypt); and 4) recent case studies, from Corinth, Pompeii and Arles to the Fretum Gaditanum, which allow us to illustrate the different and combined study methods, necessarily interdisciplinary (archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, epigraphic, palynological or biomolecular), in order to advance in this transcendental theme and its significance for the economic history and maritime traffic of the Ancient World.

Table of contents

• Cover
• EDITORIAL BOARD
• Organizers
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Preface
• Ánforas romanas y contenidos. Notas istoriográficas
• Miguel Beltrán Lloris
• Historical and archaeological indicators
• Amphorae: typology and contents
• Shipwrecks, amphorae and contents
• Amphora contents as commodities: the structure and function oftituli picti in the western Mediterranean in the 1st century AD
• How late antique dipinti contribute to a better knowledge of amphora contents
• The reuse of transport amphorae as packaging containersin the Roman world: an overview
• Archaeometric indicators: generalities and case studies
• Amphorae and residue analysis: theorical considerations
• Amphorae and residue analysis: content of amphorae and organic coatings
• GC-MS analysis of pitch from Roman amphorae from Cosa in Etruria (Italy)
• Residue analysis by GC-MS and FT-IR Spectroscopy on Roman amphorae from the archaeological site ‘Nuovo Mercato Testaccio’ (Rome)
• The contents of ancient Graeco-Italic amphorae.First analyses on the amphorae of the Filicudi F andSecca di Capistello wrecks (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)
• Inland trade and consumption in context. A case study on the organic residue analysis of transport amphorae from the Balkan Pe insula (Yambol District, South-eastern Bulgaria)
• The Beirut amphora: residue analysis and contents
• Making Garum. Experimental archaeology methods
• Regional and provincial syntheses
• Lusitanian Amphora Contents
• The Iberian and Roman amphorae of Hispania Citerior
• Amphora contents in Baetica: from thePunic tradition to Late Roman times
• Tituli picti on Spanish amphorae
• The contents of amphorae produced in Gaul in the Imperial period
• Italian and Sicilian amphorae and their contents: a general overview
• The content of amphorae from Adriatic Italy
• African amphora contents: an update
• Amphorae from the Byzacene coast: what did they contain?
• The oil supply in the Roman East: identifying modes of production, containers and contents in the eastern Empire
• Feeding the Lower Danube and Pontic areas with local wine and fish products (1st century BC‑3rd century AD)
• Ephesus wines
• Egyptian amphorae from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman periods
• Case studies: From the West to the East
• The contents of amphora type T-7.4.3.3 (former type Mañá C2b):ancient problematic and new research perspectives
• The fish-salting production centre of Águilas:late-Roman amphora content analysis
• New data, new questions on the paleo-contents studies of Roman jars and amphorae in underwater contexts: salsamenta, garum, lymphatum and other fish products
• Dressel 21-22 Italic amphorae for fish: the archaeozoological confirmation from the garum shop at Pompeii
• Amphorae with residues from Southern Sardinia (Cagliari and Nora)
• ‘De profundis’: three amphorae of unorthodox contents retrieved from the Aegean Sea
• Salting and consuming fish in the Classical Mediterranean. A review of the archaeological evidence from the Punic Amphora Building (Corinth, Greece)