The importance of the Asia minor coastline in the production and distribution of the late roman/protobyzantine amphora 1 (LRA 1)
Abstract
Within the new geopolitical environment which is shaped for the Byzantine
Empire during the Protobyzantine period, Constantinople as a New Rome,
constitutes the administrative as well as the financial centre of the Empire. In
Constantinople end up basic financial routes, that concern not only the
exterior trade with the East but also the internal commerce of the Mediterranean
which extended from Asia Minor to France, Spain and Great
Britain and from North Africa to Constantinople. As a result, the coastline of
Asia Minor gets also higher geographical importance as it is situated among
the naval commercial roads uniting the new capital with the eastern regions
and the West Mediterranean. The spreading and the common use of the same
type of amphorae all over the Mediterranean can constitute a means of
documentation for these commercial roads, of the financial relations between
the production centres of these vases and the centres of their import.
In this text an effort is made for a combined presentation of the archaeological
and historical information which sets off the role of the Asia Minor
coastline in the naval commerce of wine during the late Roman / Protobyzantine
era. We examine the example of Kilikia region as a production
centre and maybe even more as the place of origin of the Late Roman
Amphorae 1.
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Διαμαντή Χ. (2008). The importance of the Asia minor coastline in the production and distribution of the late roman/protobyzantine amphora 1 (LRA 1). Bulletin of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 15, 11–37. https://doi.org/10.12681/deltiokms.259
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