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15 - Polysemy, Epigraphic Habit and Social Legibility ofMaritime Shippers

Navicularii, Naukleroi, Naucleri, Nauculari,Nauclari

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Pascal Arnaud
Edited by
Pascal Arnaud  and
Simon Keay
Pascal Arnaud
Affiliation:
Université Lumière Lyon II
Simon Keay
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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The Latin words navicularii and nauclari and the Greek ναύκληροι or naucleri provide us with aninteresting case study of epigraphic evidence. It isvery illustrative of the opportunities that thisevidence offers, as well as its limits of inference,and the amount of work still necessary for a soundunderstanding of its meaning. The corpus of knowntexts raises several issues. The first one is thesmall number of epigraphic occurrences of thesewords. Almost 90 individuals and more than 60mentions of groups may be considered to be asignificant corpus (Table 5). It is quite a smallnumber, however, if compared to the some 600inscriptions mentioning negotiantes, negotiatores and πραγματευόμενοι, or the45 inscriptions mentioning naukleroi on the island of Delos alonein the pre-Imperial period. Occurrences of maritimeshippers remain suprisingly rare given the largenumber of ports in the Empire and the time span ofc. 500 years underconsideration. Notwithstanding the presence of anumber of major coastal ports, the epigraphy of theRoman Near East has provided a very large number ofcitations relating to occupations, but has onlyproduced two naukleroi, one at Askalon, the other atAradus in a late inscription, although threeLevantine naukleroiare recorded in other geographical areas and ports.The reasons for such an epigraphic silence are worthexploring.

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Roman Port Societies
The Evidence of Inscriptions
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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