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Friday 14 April 2023 14.00 - 16.00
I-11 ANT07 Roman Port Cities: Places, Processes, People
B34
Network: Antiquity Chair: Birgitta Sjöberg Leppänen
Organizers: Lena Larsson Lovén, Madelaine Miller Discussants: -
Kristian Göransson : A View from the Southern Shores: Greeks, Libyans and Romans in Berenice, Cyrenaica
Berenice (modern Benghazi) in Cyrenaica was an important city in Roman Libya. The city was a Hellenistic foundation from the third century BC, replacing the earlier Greek city of Euesperides. With its strategic location on the coast, as the westernmost of the larger settlements in Cyrenaica, Berenice was ideally placed ... (Show more)
Berenice (modern Benghazi) in Cyrenaica was an important city in Roman Libya. The city was a Hellenistic foundation from the third century BC, replacing the earlier Greek city of Euesperides. With its strategic location on the coast, as the westernmost of the larger settlements in Cyrenaica, Berenice was ideally placed to act as a node in the trade networks of the region. The city connected the inland pastoral economy of the Libyans with the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean world with its maritime trade routes. Although there were frequent conflicts between the Greeks and Libyans in Cyrenaica, this paper aims at presenting how centuries of co-habitation had benefitted trade and prosperity in the city. The study focuses on the period from the beginning of Roman rule in the Late Republic to the Early Imperial period. (Show less)

Arja Karivieri, Katariina Mustakallio : Multicultural and Multiethnic Harbour Cities: New Perspectives, New Challenges
The topic of this paper is the multicultural and multiethnic harbour cities of Rome from the 1st c. CE to Late Antiquity. In port environments that were sensitive to changes in the Mediterranean world, different cultures, ethnicities and religious cults interacted constantly. In this context, societal and cultural responses ... (Show more)
The topic of this paper is the multicultural and multiethnic harbour cities of Rome from the 1st c. CE to Late Antiquity. In port environments that were sensitive to changes in the Mediterranean world, different cultures, ethnicities and religious cults interacted constantly. In this context, societal and cultural responses to the threats are analysed, using a multidisciplinary approach in the study of the threats from outside and inside conditioned by the historical changes and continuance during the chosen time period. The various methods and theories used in the study of multicultural and multiethnic harbour cities provide new perspectives and new challenges for the study of ancient societies. (Show less)

Lena Larsson Lovén : People at Work in Roman Port Cities of the Western Mediterranean
Around the costal areas of the ancient Mediterranean there were smaller and bigger port settlements and cities which were the naves in local and interregional commercial and cultural activities. Among ancient harbour cities, some stand out as major international centres, where the port and its connection to the sea and ... (Show more)
Around the costal areas of the ancient Mediterranean there were smaller and bigger port settlements and cities which were the naves in local and interregional commercial and cultural activities. Among ancient harbour cities, some stand out as major international centres, where the port and its connection to the sea and maritime trade was the base for the economic and civil life of the city. The biggest and most important harbour city in the ancient western Mediterranean was Ostia, located at the mouth of the river Tiber, about 30 kilometres west of Rome. Ostia was the most important harbour city in the region but not the only one as other cities were located along the coast line all along the west coast of present-day Italy to the east coast of Spain. People lived, worked and died in harbour cities where some jobs were connected to the maritime trade and business, others were more “ordinary” Roman jobs. By investigating epigraphic and iconographic evidence from a number of port cities in the western Mediterranean, this paper seeks to explore examples of occupations related to primarily the maritime trade but also the general local labour market as it appears from epigraphic and iconographic evidence. (Show less)

Madelaine Miller : Roman River Ports-boundaries and Urban Structures
In Antiquity the need of harbours along the Mediterranean became important as the Romans expanded their territory. Today we know of many smaller and larger Roman ports and maritime settlements along the coasts round the basin. These ports were often strategically situated and functioned as nodes in the long-distance maritime ... (Show more)
In Antiquity the need of harbours along the Mediterranean became important as the Romans expanded their territory. Today we know of many smaller and larger Roman ports and maritime settlements along the coasts round the basin. These ports were often strategically situated and functioned as nodes in the long-distance maritime trade. Less known in this context is perhaps the Roman river ports. This paper will examine three of these; Pisa, Arles and Narbonne. On the west coast of Italy, Pisa (Portus Pisanus), consisted of several ports at the place where the rivers Arno and Serchio meet. The ancient river port Arles (rom. Arelate) in the delta of the river Rhône, in southern France, became an important city in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. As a capital in the same province, Narbonne (rom. Narbo) had a strategic location on Via Domitia that connected Italy with Spain. By mapping the physical remains of these port cities, the objective will be to understand how these cities were built and how the spaces used for maritime activities related to other urban structures, but also to examine how the port cities were connected with the hinterland and the sea. (Show less)



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