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16 - Reading Roman Port Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Nicholas Purcell
Edited by
Pascal Arnaud  and
Simon Keay
Pascal Arnaud
Affiliation:
Université Lumière Lyon II
Simon Keay
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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Summary

The excellent conference on which this volume has beenbased, ‘Roman Port Societies through the Evidence ofInscriptions’, made all of the participants reflectafresh on many fundamental questions about how thismedium illustrates the surprisingly elusive issue ofwhat kinds of societies were characteristic of Romanharbour settlements. These concluding remarks areintended to address some of these. Two very basicquestions about the medium stood out: how – and howfar – do surviving inscriptions actually reflectancient social history in the first place; and (inparticular) does the level of diversity in theepigraphic record mirror actual variety across timeand space in the Roman world?2 Romanports make rather good laboratory specimens for suchenquiries. The papers at the conference, inaccordance with the aims of the Portuslimen project, addressed a goodspread of ports, all, except Delos and Ephesos, fromthe western basin of the Mediterranean, principallyAquileia, Arelate, Hispalis, Lugdunum, Narbo,Narona, Ostia/Portus and Puteoli.

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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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