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  • PORTVM TRAIANI: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE IMAGERY OF TRAJAN'S HARBOUR AT PORTUS

  • Simon Keay, Bernhard Woytek
  • Journal:
    Papers of the British School at Rome / Volume 90 / October 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 November 2022, pp. 63-107
    Print publication:
    October 2022

  • This is a collaborative in-depth study of Trajan's sestertii with a bird's-eye view of the harbour at Portus (RIC 631–2), struck in AD 112–14. It is based on a new numismatic analysis of the coin type, featuring a corpus of 46 specimens and a critical study of their reverse dies, as well as on recent archaeological research at the port that allows for a better understanding of the harbour buildings and their chronology. The article provides the first detailed comparison of the structures shown on the nine reverse dies with those on the ground. The new interdisciplinary assessment of the evidence leads to a new hypothesis regarding the occasion of the coin issue: it probably commemorated the inauguration of the harbour's distinctive hexagonal basin, through which the new port facility became operational.

Roman Port Societies
  • The Evidence of Inscriptions
  • Edited by Pascal Arnaud, Simon Keay
  • Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    03 September 2020
  • 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.

  • 1 - The Context of Roman Mediterranean PortSocieties

  • Edited by Pascal Arnaud, Université Lumière Lyon II, Simon Keay, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    Roman Port Societies
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    03 September 2020, pp 1-35

  • Summary

    This is the first book to arise from aninterdisciplinary initiative, the RomanMediterranean Ports project, which seeks a holisticunderstanding of early Imperial ports by addressinga range of key questions relating to theircharacter, organization and roles.1 Thegeographical centrality of the Mediterranean to theRoman Empire, which was without precedent and hasnot been matched subsequently, helped enable itspolitical integrity for well over 400 years. By theearly first century AD, Rome had come to dominateall of the shores surrounding the Mediterranean,transforming its constituent seas into a uniquemaritime space. Interconnected commercial networkscriss-crossed its many islands and micro-regions,enabling provincial communities to maintain intensecommercial relationships with Rome at the centre ofthe mare nostrum,although debates continue to rage over their scaleand the nature of theirorganization.2

  • 2 - Inscriptions and Port Societies

  • Edited by Pascal Arnaud, Université Lumière Lyon II, Simon Keay, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    Roman Port Societies
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    03 September 2020, pp 36-62

  • Summary

    One question that arises from a study of ports iswhether or not there existed a pattern of portsocieties. A Roman port society means theindividuals and groups who together with variouslevels of administration made port life real, aswell as their relationships and the rules of thesocial game. Using the plural presupposes that thesecould vary through time and space. Ports were notsimply an administrative machine whose details stillpuzzle us. They were also cosmopolitan placesdevoted to profit that involved a complex set ofprofessions and people of various origins and socialstatus, with various patterns of organization andnetworking (citizenship, language, religion, guilds,personal patronage, family in its wider sense), whowere able to combine in a great variety of ways. Atthis point one wonders whether there was a patternof society that was common to ports across theEmpire as a whole. Were there several patterns thatcould help us better understand or identify porthierarchies and the organization and layout ofports?

  • Living and dying at the Portus Romae

  • Tamsin C. O'Connell, Rachel M. Ballantyne, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Evi Margaritis, Samantha Oxford, Walter Pantano, Martin Millett, Simon J. Keay
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 93 / Issue 369 / June 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 June 2019, pp. 719-734
    Print publication:
    June 2019
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  • The ‘Portus Project’ investigates the social and economic contexts of the maritime port of Imperial Rome. This article presents the results of analysis of plant, animal and human remains from the site, and evaluates their significance for the reconstruction of the diets and geographic origins of its inhabitants between the second and sixth centuries AD. Integrating this evidence with other material from the recent excavations, including ceramic data, the authors identify clear diachronic shifts in imported foods and diet that relate to the commercial and political changes following the breakdown of Roman control of the Mediterranean.

  • PORTUS AND ROME‘S MEDITERRANEAN PORTS PROJECTS

  • Simon Keay, Sophie Hay
  • Journal:
    Papers of the British School at Rome / Volume 85 / October 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 October 2017, pp. 315-316
    Print publication:
    October 2017
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