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Schmidts, Thomas and Seifert, Martina (Eds.): New Approaches to Seaborne Commerce in the Roman Empire: Panel 5.17, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, Volume 24). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1038

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07/27/2022

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Thomas Schmidts (Ed.), Martina Seifert (Ed.)

New Approaches to Seaborne Commerce in the Roman Empire

Panel 5.17

Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018

Seaborne commerce in the Roman Empire is characterised by a remarkable efficiency for the pre-modern world. From Egypt to Britain, trade connections can be proven on the basis of archaeological finds. The range of these activities includes the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and parts of the north-eastern Atlantic. Important reference points for the assessment of Roman merchant shipping are ports, ships and cargo remains. Due to the large number of known shipwrecks and ports, archaeology in particular can contribute to a better understanding of maritime trade.
The contributions address various aspects of the "seaborne commerce" with a broad methodological spectrum.  In addition to wreck finds, the relevance of inscriptions on amphorae and other cargo remains are considered as well as the formation of networks, the reconstruction of ship routes and the performance of ancient watercraft based on experiments.

Thomas Schmidts is an archaeologist at the RGZM, Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology and teaches as a assistant professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Nautical archaeology is one of his research interests.

Martina Seifert is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Hamburg and researches, among other topics, ports and landing sites in the ancient Mediterranean.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
a-iv
Contents
v
Martin Bentz, Michael Heinzelmann
Preface
vii
Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
A Bird’s-eye View: the Legal Side of Imperial Seaborne Commerce
1-3
Thomas Schmidts
The Inscribed Seaborne Commerce
5-15
Sebastian Adlung, Julia Daum, Martina Seifert
Maritime Trade in the Adriatic Sea
17-21
Pascal Warnking
The Colours of Pompeii
23-24
Gloriana Pace
Le navi antiche di Pisa: Breve introduzione al contesto archeologico
25-28
Michaela Reinfeld
The Maritime Trade Network of Lycia in the Context of Mediterranean Merchant Shipping – a Bottom-up Approach to the Ancient Economy
29-46
Christoph Schäfer
Seaborne Trade and Field Trials with Roman Vessels on Rhine, Moselle and Danube
47-54

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