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ROMAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
VOLUME 30 2017
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REVIEW ARTICLES AND LONG REVIEWS,
OBITUARY, AND BOOKS RECEIVED
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Alan K. Bowman, Brasenose College, Oxford
Katherine M. D. Dunbabin, Lynden, Ontario
Pierre Gros, Aix-en-Provence
John W. Hayes, Oxford
Eugenio La Rocca, University of Rome 1
Carlo Pavolini, Università della Tuscia a Viterbo
Jean-Pierre Sodini, Colombes
Eva Margareta Steinby, Helsinki
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Cambridge
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
T. V. Buttrey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Amanda Claridge, London
Moshe Fischer, Department of Classics, Tel-Aviv University
David L. Kennedy, University of Western Australia
Roger Ling, University of Manchester
Michael Mackensen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet München
John Matthews, Yale University
Richard Neudecker, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Nicholas Purcell, Brasenose College, Oxford
Isabel Rodà, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona
Russell T. Scott, Department of Latin, Bryn Mawr College
Cinzia Vismara, Roma
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Table of contents of fascicule 2
Review articles and long reviews
A. J. Nijboer Indigenous groups of the Early Iron Age in S Italy 536
J. M. Turfa The development of Etruscan studies in Italy 540
J. Armstrong Building up Archaic Rome 543
C. Courrier L’Aventin plébéien: un mythe historiographique? 547
I. van der Graaf Alatri and other polygonal walling, with a Festschrift to L. Gasperini 552
B. Peruzzi An exhibit on the Ceglie Vases from near Bari 557
B. Barr-Sharrar An important exhibit on Hellenistic and early Roman bronzes 559
A. Ziolkowski Filippo Coarelli and the history of religion: how to honour a polymath 568
T. A. J. McGinn Trouble on the Appian Way: a new understanding of the Pro Milone 578
M. L. Popkin The Roman triumph and triumphal monuments during the 1st c. B.C. 584
F. S. Kleiner To be Roman in Rome 592
R. Ling The predominance of Greek myths in Roman domestic and funerary 594
imagery
G. Sears Parallel stories of spatial violence 598
L. L. Brice Régime change with violence and an ‘old-school’ network 602
Y. Perrin Néron encore et toujours ... 605
K. Dicus Bringing to light the chequered story of the House of Sallust in Pompeii 610
J. T. Peña “Expo Milano 2015” on the Tiber? The catalogue from an exhibition 615
on Roman food
C. Russenberger Tombs and sarcophagi: shifting the perspective on Rome’s funerary 620
culture of the 3rd c. A.D.
M. Mayer i Olivé Un paso más en la consolidación de la epigrafía como ciencia 630
fundamental
E. Fentress Causation, correlation, and climate change: Romans and their 640
environment
M. S. Hobson Ancient economics: dialectic of quantity and quality 644
T. A. J. McGinn Judicial spaces in the Roman world 649
R. P. Saller The three social orders in imperial administration (1st-3rd c. A.D.) 654
P. Gros Lieux sacrés et formes théâtrales dans les provinces du nord-ouest 657
de l’empire: la place, le volume et le rôle des édifices de spectacle
dans les rituels religieux
M. M. Lindner & Roman women’s public presence in the towns of Italy and the 663
E. Lamond western provinces
R. Gordon Mithraic ideas and reflections 666
M. Junkelmann Another practical re-creation of gladiatorial combat 670
J.-P. Thuillier Les jeux romains dans l’art 671
J. Liu Roman craftsmen and traders: strategies, networks, and spatial 676
distributions in urban contexts
R. H. Wilkinson The hidden demographics of Roman migration 682
K. V. Huntley Back to questions of identity 688
Table of contents of fascicule 2 (continued)
E. Marlowe Renovations and the use of spolia in Rome of the late 3rd and 4th c. A.D. 859
C. C. Mattusch Crunching numbers: counting statues and inscriptions 864
C. H. Hallett The Greek and Roman “statue habit”: the last hurrah 875
S. J. Barker New perspectives on the afterlife of ancient sculpture 891
R. Van Dam Philosophy and theology in the age of Constantine 894
Chr. Eger Piecing together the story of Bonifatius 898
R. Reece The production and recycling of coins in the Late Empire 901
K. M. D. Dunbabin The games in late antiquity 904
K. Harper Cities of God, cities of the dead, in the collected works of Éric Rebillard 913
J. Conant Changing views of the soul’s fate in the afterlife 916
S. T. Stevens A new inventory of Christian basilicas in Tunisia: marking the end of 918
an era?
S. T. Parker Late Roman military architecture, with some questions about the 923
eastern frontier
M. Whiting The kastron and fortifications of Androna northeast of Hama 930
T. Erickson-Gini Completing the series on Jabal Harun near Petra 933
R. Ousterhout The basilica at Herakleia Perinthos and connections with the 937
Byzantine capital
C. C. Mattusch Rome under the influence: Canova’s view of antiquity 939
D. M. Totten Placemaking in the Mediterranean: the case of Butrint 948
S. L. Tuck On collecting the collection at the AAR, and how to use it 956
Obituary
Silvio Panciera by John Bodel 960
1 Supported by the Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, Tróia Resort,
Tróia Ruinas y Fundaçâo para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
2 E.g., F. Mayet, A. Schmitt and C. T. Silva, Les amphores du Sado (Portugal). Prospection des fours et
analyse du matériel (Paris 1996); F. Mayet and C. T. Silva, L’atelier d’amphores de Pinheiro (Portugal)
(Paris 1998); iid., L’atelier d’amphores de Abul (Portugal) (Paris 2002).
3 Cf. C. Fabião, “Centros oleiros da Lusitania: balanço dos conhecimentos e perspectivas de
investigação,” in D. Bernal and L. Lagóstena (edd.), Figlinae baeticae. Talleres alfareros y producciones
cerámicas en la Bética romana (ss. II a.C.–VII d.C.) (BAR S1266; Oxford 2004) vol. 1, 379-410.
4 A. D. Diogo, “Quadro tipológico das ânforas de fabrico lusitano,” ArqPort ser. 4, vol. 5 (1987) 179-91.
5 A. Alarcão and F. Mayet (edd.), As ânforas lusitanas. Tipologia, produção, comercio. Actas da mesa
redonda de Conímbriga, 1988 (Coimbra–Paris 1990).
6 C. Fabião, “O sul da Lusitânia (Algarve português) e a Baetica: concorrência ou complementari-
dade?,” in Ex Baetica amphorae. Conservas y vino de la Bética en el Imperio Romano (Écija 2001) vol. 2,
In search of Lusitanian amphoras 749
717-30; C. Viegas, A ocupação romana do Algarve — estudo do povoamento e economia do Algarve central
e oriental no período romano (Lisbon 2011) 567-75.
7 J. P. Ikäheimo and J. T. Peña, “The Palatine East Pottery Project: a holistic approach to the study
and publication of an excavated pottery assemblage from Rome,” in K. T. Biro (ed.), Proceedings of
the European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (Budapest 2007) vol. 7, 37-42; J. McCaw, “The VESCAP
routine for calculating vessel capacity from a profile drawing,” in E. Papi (ed.), Supplying Rome and
the Empire (JRA Suppl. 69, 2007) 170-72; D. Mateo and J. Molina, “Archaeological quantification of
pottery. Rims count adjusted with Modulus of Rupture (MR),” Archaeometry 58 (2016) 333-46.
8 E. Sousa and A. M. Arruda, “A gaditanização do Algarve,” Mainake 32 (2010) 951-74; Viegas (supra
n.5); A. M. Arruda, “O Algarve na rota Atlântica do comércio romano,” in B. Mora and G. Cruz
(edd.), La etapa neopúnica en Hispania y el Mediterráneo centro occidental: identidades compartidas
(Sevilla 2012) 413-24; D. Mateo, Comercio anfórico y relaciones mercantiles en Hispania Ulterior (ss. II
a.C.–II d.C.) (Coll. Instrumenta 52, Barcelona 2016) 261-62.
750 D. Mateo Corredor
9 J. Mas, “El polígono submarino de Caba de Palos. Sus aportaciones al estudio del tráfico marítimo
antiguo,” in VI Congreso Int. de Arqueología Submarína, Cartagena 1982 (Madrid 1985) 153-71.
In search of Lusitanian amphoras 751
are from Lusitania, most of them probably spanning the 1st c. A.D. At this site there are high
numbers of tituli picti referring to the contents of Lusitanian amphoras (6 examples). Within the
Lusitanian amphora types, it is surprising that 25% belong to Dressel 14 parvae, a little-known
type. The authors consider whether this evidence could relate to the initial phase of commer-
cialisation of Lusitanian goods in this part of Gaul and that these amphoras might be samples
for promoting those products — a stimulating hypothesis, although one difficult to prove.
Nonetheless, Lusitanian imports are very rare in both Germanies and in Gallia Belgica, even on
the best-known sites that have been studied by P. Monsieur.
Amongst regions beyond the Iberian peninsula, Italy is the best represented, with 6 arti-
cles. Analyses of Lusitanian amphoras at Ostia and Rome are carried out by A. Martin and
G. Rizzo, respectively. Rome and its hinterland seems to have been one of the main export
destinations for Lusitanian products from at least the Neronian-Flavian period, despite the
fact that Lusitanian amphoras never made up a substantial proportion of the vast quantity of
imported amphoras sent to the capital. The distribution of Lusitanian amphoras in Italy’s Adri-
atic sector is much lower, since that area was more open to other markets; in general, amphoras
from the Iberian peninsula as a whole are rare, even if R. Auriemma and S. Mattioli point out
the problems when trying to distinguish between Lusitanian and Baetican types, Almagro 50,
and the Greek amphora San Lorenzo 7 which is abundant in this area. Similarly, D. Gaddi and
V. Degrassi note the similarities between Lusitana 3 and Dressel 30 types.10
The volume ends with a full analysis of the main navigation routes and circulation of Lusita-
nian amphoras using a selection of shipwrecks from the W Mediterranean. Shipwrecks with a
homogeneous cargo from Lusitania are very rare. Between the Julio-Claudian and Antonine
period Lusitanian amphoras share cargo space with other Spanish amphoras, but from the mid-
dle of the 3rd c. they begin to be recorded alongside N African amphoras. Here a summary table
containing the essential information about each shipwreck analysed would have been valuable.
Overall, the reader has been given updated information on the circulation of Lusitanian
amphoras, considerably extending our knowledge of their presence at consumption centres.
Nonetheless, the earlier assessment has not changed substantially: there is a recurring presence
of Lusitanian products on markets in the West, but they do not achieve the kind of percent-
age amongst imports overall that one might expect to result from the enormous productive
capacity of fish-salting centres at places such as Tróia.11 The main exceptions are the important
percentages achieved by the Lusitanian 3 type in the lower Guadalquivir Valley during the
Severan period (although this type would have contained wine) and, especially, the dominance
of Lusitanian amphoras in their home region, which shows that we should not underestimate
the fact that a significant part of the production would have been addressed to regional centres
of consumption. The level of consumption, in absolute terms, of Lusitanian products at Rome
should also not be underestimated.
The reader will appreciate the clear tables and graphs, especially important where quan-
tification is a chief tool of analysis. On the other hand, one misses a subject and author index,
which would have facilitated a quick search of particular topics. The volume will certainly
aid the identification of Lusitanian amphoras on consumption sites, thereby increasing the
numbers and leading to a more precise understanding of the actual distribution of Lusitanian
products. The book represents a major advance in our knowledge of the Lusitanian produc-
tions12 and will become the main reference work for their study.
daniel.mateo@ua.es University of Alicante
10 It seems to be an error that on fig. 4 (p. 439) some Lusitana 3 are mentioned with Baetican fabrics,
but some similar types (Dr. 30) produced in regions like Malaga are very similar typologically and
could easily be confused with Lusitana 3, being instead Baetican productions.
11 R. Étienne, Y. Makaroun and F. Mayet, Un grand complexe industriel à Tróia (Portugal) (Paris 1994);
R. Étienne and F. Mayet, Trois clés pour l’économie de l’Hispanie romaine II. Salaisons et sauces hispaniques
(Paris 2002).
12 Also now the proceedings of the Seixal international workshop “A Olaria Romana” (Roman pottery
works, with experimental workshop), freely available at http://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/27927.