Roman Port Societies
The Evidence of Inscriptions

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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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