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Author:   Pascal Arnaud (Université Lumière Lyon II) ,  Simon Keay (University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.050kg
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9781108486224

ISBN 10:   1108486223
Pages:   466
Publication Date:   03 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Context of Roman Mediterranean Port Societies: An Introduction to the Portuslimen Project SIMON KEAY; 2. Inscriptions and Port Societies: Evidence, 'Analyse du discours', Silences and Portscapes PASCAL ARNAUD and SIMON KEAY; 3. Stationes and Associations of Merchants at Puteoli and Delos: Modes of Social Organization and Integration DIRK STEUERNAGEL; 4. Boatmen and Their Corpora in the Great Ports of the Roman West (Second to Third Centuries AD) NICOLAS TRAN; 5. Roman Port Societies and Their Collegia: Differences and Similarities between the Associations of Ostia and Ephesos DOROTHEA ROHDE; 6. Port Occupations and Social Hierarchies: A Comparative Study through Inscriptions from Hispalis, Arelate, Lugdunum, Narbo Martius, Ostia-Portus and Aquileia HÉLÈNE ROUGIER; 7.Warehouse Societies CATHERINE VIRLOUVET; 8. The Imperial Cult and the Sacred Bonds of Roman Overseas Commerce TACO TERPSTRA; 9. Law and Life in Roman Harbours JEAN-JACQUES AUBERT; 10. Living Like a Cosmopolitan? On Roman Port City Societies in the Western Mediterranean SABINE PANZRAM; 11. Ports, Trade and Supply Routes in Western Europe: The Case of Narbonne MICHEL CHRISTOL; 12. The Port Society of Narona MARC MAYER; 13. Municipal Authority, Central Authority and Euergetists at Work at the Port: Layers of Activity and Interplay at Ephesos PASCAL ARNAUD 14 The Structure of Mercantile Communities in the Roman World: How Open Were Roman Trade Networks? Koenraad Verboven 15 Polysemy, Epigraphic Habit and Social Legibility of Maritime Shippers: Navicularii, Naukleroï, Naucleri, Nauculari, Nauclari Pascal Arnaud 16 Reading Roman Port Societies Nicholas Purcell

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Pascal Arnaud is Emeritus Professor Roman History at the Université Lumière Lyon II and a senior Fellow at Institut Universitaire de France. His main fields of expertise are maritime history, economic history, epigraphy, papyrology, ancient geography and periplography. He has been co-directing the ERC Advanced Grant-funded Portus Limen project which has been investigating ports across the Mediterranean. Simon Keay is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Southampton and a Fellow of the British Academy. His main areas of expertise are Roman trade, commerce and cultural change. Most recently, he has been directing excavations and survey at Portus, the port of imperial Rome, as well as the ERC Advanced Grant-funded Portus Limen project which has been investigating ports across the Mediterranean.

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