Storage in the Eastern and Southeastern Carpathians, 1st–6th Centuries AD
Pits, Dolia, and Horrea
By (author) Bianca-Elena Grigoraș
Hardback (Published)
(June 2026)
ISBN: 9781805832416
7.99 x 10.91 inches
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This volume explores storage practices in the eastern and southeastern Carpathians between the 1st and 6th centuries AD, examining pits, dolia, and warehouses as evidence for economic life along the Roman frontier. Drawing on archaeological, literary, and ethnographic sources, it offers the first comprehensive study of regional storage systems.
Storage in the Eastern and Southeastern Carpathians, 1st–6th Centuries AD presents a holistic image of a regional response to the new realities created by its inclusion in the Roman Empire. It focuses on three storage methods: storage pits, storage vessels, and warehouses, with a chapter devoted to each. Analysis begins with literary, epigraphic, and iconographic evidence and continues with ethnographic and archaeological sources. This theme is all the more important as it considers both household and large-scale storage, which involve different economic actors. Thus, an analysis of the economy of the eastern and southeastern Carpathians is built up, beginning with the density and storage capacity of pits, supply vessels, and warehouses. Capacity calculations for pits and supply vessels in this region were hitherto almost non-existent, and this book seeks to fill this gap. The work is the first attempt to present all the storage systems from the eastern and southeastern Carpathian areas during the 1st-6th centuries AD, eschewing a purely schematic approach to integrate the data into the empire’s economic system. Their typology and analogies with structures from the other Roman provinces will assist in their accurate identification, enabling them to be incorporated into discussions regarding the economy of the Roman Empire.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Historiographic context
Geographical and methodological framework
Chapter 2: Storage pits
Introduction
Sources
Storage pits in eastern and southeastern Carpathian regions
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Storage vessels
Introduction
Sources
Chapter 4: Typology of storage vessels
Introduction
Dolia
Petrographic analyses
Medium-sized storage vessels
Small-sized storage vessels
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Food storage in warehouses
Introduction
Typology of warehouses
Sources
Storage structures between the Danube and the Black Sea
Conclusions
Chapter 6: Conclusions
Considerations on economic history in the eastern Carpathian area
Considerations on economic history in the southeastern Carpathian area
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Bianca-Elena Grigoraș completed her PhD at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Faculty of History. She is an archaeologist at the National Institute of Heritage, Bucharest. She has participated in international archaeological excavations at Pompeiopolis, Turkey, and at Noviodunum and Tropaeum Traiani on a national level. The ceramic material discovered in these excavations was published or presented at national or international conferences. She is the author of numerous scientific papers which have appeared in the proceedings volumes LRCW and RCRF among others.
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