The Ancient Mediterranean Trade in Ceramic Building Materials: A Case Study in Carthage and Beirut
By (author) Philip Mills
Paperback (Published)
(February 2013)
ISBN: 9781905739608
8.27 x 11.69 inches
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This study addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD.
This study (the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity) addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the impact of different modes of production, distribution and consumption of CBM and how archaeological assemblages differ from what is predicted by current models of the ancient economy. It also explores how CBM can be used to investigate cultural identity and urban form. CBM has great potential in investigating these topics. It survives in large quantities in the archaeological record; it is transported as a commodity in its own right, not as a container for other products like amphorae. The amount of CBM used in a building can be estimated, and this can be extrapolated to urban centres to model consumption in ways that are not possible for other goods. This allows the potential derivation of economic information to a higher level of precision than is the case for other materials. The material used in this study derives from stratified assemblages from two major ports of the ancient Mediterranean: Carthage and Beirut. CBM as a material is comparable to pottery, only it does not exhibit the same range of forms. This leaves fabric as a major means of analysing CBM samples. For this reason a programme of petrological thin sectioning has been carried out on these assemblages. These data have been combined with the taphonomic and dating evidence from the excavations. The results showed that the levels of imports of CBM into these two cities were much higher than would normally be expected from the orthodox model of the consumer city. They also suggest that CBM can be used as a tool to investigate cultural identity. This study is the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity. See below for LRFW 1. Late Roman Fine Wares. Solving problems of typology and chronology. A review of the evidence, debate and new contexts (2012) edited by Miguel Angel Cau, Paul Reynolds and Michel Bonifay. ISBN 9781905739462.
Chapter 1 Introduction and Theory
Chapter 2 Methodology
Chapter 3 Analysis of the Fabrics
Chapter 4 Taphonomic and Other Analysis
Chapter 5 The Cultural Biography of CBM
Chapter 6 Conclusions and Further Work, Chapter 1: Introduction and Theory ;
Chapter 2: Methodology ;
Chapter 3: Analysis of the Fabrics ;
Chapter 4: Taphonomic and Other Analysis ;
Chapter 5: The Cultural Biography of CBM ;
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Further Work
- By (author) Philip Mills
Other Titles in this Series
El comercio tardoantiguo (ss.IV-VII) en el Noroeste peninsular a través del registro cerámico de la ría de Vigo
Cerámica común romana y ciclo haliéutico
Análisis de los contextos de las cetariae de Iulia Traducta
Ánforas vinarias de Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis (s. I a.C.– I d.C.)
Caracterización arqueométrica
LRFW 1. Late Roman Fine Wares. Solving problems of typology and chronology.
A review of the evidence, debate and new contexts
Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic – Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC–AD 700)
LRCW 6: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry
Land and Sea: Pottery Routes
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)
Once upon a Time in the East
The Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Terra Sigillata and Red Slip Ware in the Roman East
The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean
Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire
Scambi e commerci in area vesuviana
I dati delle anfore dai saggi stratigrafici I.E. (Impianto Elettrico) 1980-81 nel Foro di Pompei
Ceramics and Atlantic Connections: Late Roman and Early Medieval Imported Pottery on the Atlantic Seaboard
Proceedings of an International Symposium at Newcastle University, March 2014
Roman Pottery in the Near East: Local Production and Regional Trade
Proceedings of the round table held in Berlin, 19-20 February 2010
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