Keay, S. In, Woytek, Bernard ed. Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse , Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. The Flow of Money, Goods and Services.
Austrian Academy of Sciences , pp. This paper addresss the issue of how Roman Mediterranean ports functioned as centres for importing, exporting and re-distributing merchandise, by re-appraising the archaeological, historical and epigraphic evidence from the most important of these, the Portus Augusti during the 2nd c AD.
Portus served as the maritime port of Imperial Rome down until the at least the later 5th c AD, and as such was the hub of a system of ports that also included Ostia, Centumcellae and Rome itself. The paper addresses four major questions. Downloads from ePrints over the past year.
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University of Southampton Institutional Repository. The role played by the Portus Augusti in flows of commerce between Rome and its Mediterranean ports.
