Local economies? - Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity

652 Pages·2015·6.95 MB·English

by  Lavan

LOCAL ECONOMIES?

LOCAL ECONOMIES?
PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE
OF INLAND REGIONS
IN LATE ANTIQUITY
EDITED BY
LUKE LAVAN

LEIDEN | BOSTON
Originally published as Volume 10 (2013) of Brill’s journal Late Antique Archaeology.
This hardback edition (expanded with two Indices) is published in 2015.
Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami (Richard Bayliss)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Local economies? : production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquities / edites by
Luke Lavan.
  pages cm. — (Late antique archaeology ; 10)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-27703-8 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Rome—Economic conditions—30 B.C.–476 A.D.
2. Byzantine Empire—Economic conditions. 3. Rome—Commerce—History. 4. Byzantine Empire—
Commerce—History. 5. Rome—Civilization. 6. Byzantine Empire—Civilization. I. Lavan, Luke.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements  ........................................................................................ ix
List of Contributors  ........................................................................................ xi
Local Economies in Late Antiquity? Some Thoughts  .......................... 1
 Luke Lavan
Bibliographic Essays
The Late Antique Economy: Approaches, Methods and
Conceptual Issues  ...................................................................................... 15
Alyssa A. Bandow
The Late Antique Economy: Regional Surveys  ...................................... 41
Andrea Zerbini
The Late Antique Economy: Primary and Secondary Production  .... 61
Andrea Zerbini
The Late Antique Economy: Infrastructures of Transport and
Retail  .............................................................................................................. 83
Alyssa A. Bandow
The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade  ................................ 91
Stefano Costa
Theoretical Papers
How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional?
A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique Economy  ......... 133
Mark Whittow
vi contents
Integration and Disintegration in the Late Roman Economy:
The Role of Markets, Emperors, and Aristocrats  ............................. 167
Peter Sarris
Production in Inland Regions
Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania  ........................... 191
Kim Bowes
The Lessons of Gaulish Sigillata and Other Finewares  ....................... 227
Tamara Lewit
Patterning the Late Antique Economies of Inland Sicily in a
Mediterranean Context  ............................................................................ 259
Emanuele Vaccaro
Diana Veteranorum and the Dynamics of an Inland Economy  ....... 315
Elizabeth Fentress
The Economic Expansion of the Anatolian Countryside in Late
Antiquity: The Coast versus Inland Regions  ..................................... 343
Adam Izdebski
The Urban Economy in Southern Inland Greater Syria from the
Seventh Century to the End of the Umayyads  ................................. 377
Fanny Bessard
Exchange in Inland Regions
Balancing the Scales: Romano-British Pottery in Early Late
Antiquity  ....................................................................................................... 425
Jeremy Evans
The Supply and Distribution of Ceramic Building Material in
Roman Britain  ............................................................................................. 451
Phil Mills
contents vii
Imported and Local Pottery in Late Roman Pannonia  ....................... 471
Piroska Hárshegyi and Katalin Ottományi
Africa: Patterns of Consumption in Coastal Regions versus
Inland Regions. The Ceramic Evidence (300–700 A.D.)  ................ 529
Michel Bonifay
Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria
(Fourth–Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and
Local Wares  ................................................................................................. 567
Agnès Vokaer
Abstracts in French  ........................................................................................ 607
Indices
Themes and People  ................................................................................... 615
Index of Places  ............................................................................................ 635

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The conference which inspired this volume met at King’s College London
in 2010, under the title “Local Economies? Production and Exchange of
Inland Regions”. The conference was organised by Luke Lavan, assisted
by Michael Mulryan, and hosted by Tassos Papacostas and the Centre for
Hellenic Studies, KCL. Financial support came from the School of Euro-
pean Culture and Languages (University of Kent) and Museum Selection,
whilst KCL provided a lecture room and refreshments. Our thanks also go
out to the many people with whom we have discussed different aspects
of this project for their advice and encouragement, and to the referees
who read the articles contained here and offered many helpful comments.
Finally, we are grateful to Dick Kraaij and Marcella Mulder at Brill for
their help in overseeing the submission and page-setting of this book, and
to Julian Deahl for agreeing to institute LAA as a journal.
Luke Lavan
University of Kent
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