The Scarab and the Amphora: A History of Trade in Campania from the Mid-9th Century to the Early 6th Century BC
French School of Rome| N° d'inventaire | 30556 |
| Format | 16.6 x 25.7 |
| Détails | 684 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Rome, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782728315758 |
"Bibliotheque des efar" Collection - Roman series
From the 9th century BC, imported objects were deposited in the tombs of the Naples region, notably in Pontecagnano and Capua. Transport amphorae, drinking or perfume vessels, and ornaments originating from Greece, the Levant, Carthage, Adriatic Italy, and Etruria became even more numerous and diverse with the Greeks founding Euboea, Pithecussae, and then Cumae in the mid-8th century BC. How can their presence be explained, and how can these objects discovered in funerary contexts be used to investigate the exchanges of the living? Based on an inventory of imported objects and the production of numerous unpublished maps, this work aims not only to produce an economic ethnography of the distribution of non-native objects in tombs, but also to propose a comparative history of exchanges in the Campanian micro-regions. This multi-scale analysis demonstrates the possibilities of a regional economic history based on archaeological sources. Through the joint study of Greek, Etruscan and Oscan societies, Campania thus reveals itself to be an exceptional laboratory for tracing the exchanges of archaic Mediterranean societies.
"Bibliotheque des efar" Collection - Roman series
From the 9th century BC, imported objects were deposited in the tombs of the Naples region, notably in Pontecagnano and Capua. Transport amphorae, drinking or perfume vessels, and ornaments originating from Greece, the Levant, Carthage, Adriatic Italy, and Etruria became even more numerous and diverse with the Greeks founding Euboea, Pithecussae, and then Cumae in the mid-8th century BC. How can their presence be explained, and how can these objects discovered in funerary contexts be used to investigate the exchanges of the living? Based on an inventory of imported objects and the production of numerous unpublished maps, this work aims not only to produce an economic ethnography of the distribution of non-native objects in tombs, but also to propose a comparative history of exchanges in the Campanian micro-regions. This multi-scale analysis demonstrates the possibilities of a regional economic history based on archaeological sources. Through the joint study of Greek, Etruscan and Oscan societies, Campania thus reveals itself to be an exceptional laboratory for tracing the exchanges of archaic Mediterranean societies.