Roman Port Societies

The Evidence of Inscriptions

Pascal Arnaud, Simon Keay

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108486224
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108788069
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

In this book, an international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. In particular, they focus upon some of the interpretative issues that arise in dealing with this kind of epigraphic evidence, the archaeological contexts of the texts, social institutions and social groups in ports, legal issues relating to harbours, case studies relating to specific ports, and mercantile connections and shippers. While much attention is inevitably focused upon the richer epigraphic collections of Ostia and Ephesos, the papers draw upon inscriptions from a very wide range of ports across the Mediterranean. The volume will be invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 The Context of Roman Mediterranean Port Societies: An Introduction to the Portuslimen Project
• 2 Inscriptions and Port Societies: Evidence, ‘Analyse du Discours’, Silences and Portscapes
• 3 Stationes and Associations of Merchants at Puteoli and Delos: Modes of Social Organization and Integration
• 4 Boatmen and their Corpora in the Great Ports of the Roman West (Second to Third Centuries AD)
• 5 Roman Port Societies and Their Collegia: Differences and Similarities between the Associations of Ostia and Ephesos
• 6 Port Occupations and Social Hierarchies: A Comparative Study through Inscriptions from Hispalis, Arelate, Lugdunum, Narbo Martius, Ostia-Portus and Aquileia
• 7 Warehouse Societies
• 8 The Imperial Cult and the Sacred Bonds of Roman Overseas Commerce
• 9 Law and Life in Roman Harbours
• 10 Living Like a Cosmopolitan?: On Roman Port City Societies in the Western Mediterranean
• 11 Ports, Trade and Supply Routes in Western Europe: The Case of Narbonne
• 12 The Port Society of Narona
• 13 Municipal Authority, Central Authority and Euergetists at Work at the Port: Layers of Activity and Interplay at Ephesos
• 14 The Structure of Mercantile Communities in the Roman World: How Open Were Roman Trade Networks?
• 15 Polysemy, Epigraphic Habit and Social Legibility of Maritime Shippers: Navicularii, Naukleroi, Naucleri, Nauculari, Nauclari
• 16 Reading Roman Port Societies
• Indexes