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‘Salvation from the Sea’: Amphorae and Trade in the Roman West*

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Jeremy Paterson
Jeremy Paterson
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‘Le salut, pour l'histoire économique de l'antiquité, ne peut venir que de la mer’—heady talk, but typical of its time. It may well be that the decade of the’ 70s will come to be seen as the high summer of amphorae studies and it is, perhaps, no accident that such great claims have been made in a report on a wreck at Port-Vendres which is closely dated by the stamps on a remarkable series of ingots and also has an exceptional series of painted inscriptions on the amphorae of the cargo. Few wrecks have produced information of such quality.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 72 , November 1982 , pp. 146 - 157
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Copyright © Jeremy Paterson 1982. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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23 Pliny JH 14. 61, 65; 17.31.

24 D. P. S. Peacock, op. cit. (n. 22), 266 ff.

25 For Greco-Italiots from Sinuessa see A. Hesnard and C. Lemoine, op. cit. (n. 22) and W. Johannowsky, ‘Problemi archeologici Campani’, Rendicottti della Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli (1974), 3 ff.

26 For kilns producing both Dressel I and Dressel 2–4 see articles cited in n. 22. The latest consular date on a Dressel I is 13 B.C. (CIL xv. 2, 4539 and 4575). see F. Zevi, Archeologia Classica 18 (1966), 208 ff., while the dates on known Dressel 2–4 are mainly in the first century A.D. (see Zevi, op. cit.); as Hesnard (MEFRA 93. 1 (1981), 259) points out, CIL IV, 3, 9313 and NSc 1933, 331, give a date of 35 B.C. for Dressel 2–4.

27 A. Hesnard, MEFRA 89. 1 (1977), 161 n. 24 disposed of the supposed evidence for examples of Dressel 2–4 in second- and early-first-century B.C. contexts. The Augustan deposit of amphorae at La Longarina, Ostia, which contained some 181 wine amphorae and appears to have been a homogeneous deposit laid down at one time, has no example of Dressel I, while there are several Dressel 2–4, see A. Hesnard, ‘Un dépôt Augustéen d'amphores à La Longarina, Ostie’, MAAR 36 (1980), 141 ff.

28 As A. Hesnard, MEFRA 89. 1 (1977), 163, n. 34.

29 C. Panella, ‘L a distribuzione e i mercati’, Istituto Gramsci, 55 ff.

30 As C. Panella, op. cit., 65.

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32 De antidotis (Kühn XIV, 77).

33 Pliny, NH 14. 38.

34 C. Panella, ‘Retroterra, Porti e Mercati: L'Esempio dell'Ager Falernus’, MAAR 36 (1980), 251 ff.

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39 See Wiseman, T. P., New Men in the Roman Senate 139 B.C.–14 A.D. (1971), 198Google Scholar and Shatzman, I., Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics (1975), 333 f.Google Scholar

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41 Archivio del Camerlengato, Archivio di Stato di Roma tit. IV, part II, fasc. 1524 (1831), communication of L. Mazzanti, an early report of the site. A find of 200 amphorae including numerous examples of the stamps of P. Veveius Papus was made in 1881 and published in CIL x. 8050. A. Hesnard, MEFRA 89. 1 (1977), 157 ff.

42 M. Della Corte, NSc 1911, 348 f.

43 Lequément, R. and Liou, B., ‘Les épaves de la côtes de Transalpine’, Cahiers Ligures de préhistoire et d'archéologie 24 (1975), 76 ff.Google Scholar, confirming an observation made long ago by N. Lamboglia, ‘La nave romana di Albenga’, REL 18 (1952), 235 ff.

44 See J. Paterson, ‘Transalpinae Gentes: Cicero, de republica 3. 16’, CQ 28 (1978), 452 ff.

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47 These are the tentative, but important, conclusions of C. Panella, ‘La Distribuzione e i mercati’ in Istituto Gramsci, 55 ff. (in particular the table on 68–9) based in part on the finds in the Terme del Nuotatore and the deposit at La Longarina, both at Ostia: C. Panella, ‘Annotazioni in margine alle stratigrafie delle terme ostiensi del nuotatore’, Recherches, 69 ff. and op. cit. (n. 46).

48 P. Baldacci, art. cit. (n. 8), ‘Alcuni aspetti’; ‘Le principali correnti del commercio di anfore romane in Cisalpina dal III sec. a. C. al II d. C.’, I problemi della ceramica romana di Ravenna, della valle padana e dell'alto Adriatico (Atti del convegno internazionale, Ravenna 10-12 maggio 1969) (1972), 103 ff.; ‘Importazioni cisalpine e produzione apula’, Recherches, 7 ff. See also: F. Zevi, art. cit. (n. 15), 21 ff.; E. Buchi, ‘Banci di anfore romane a Verona, note sui commerci cisalpini’, Il Territorio Veronese in età romana (1973), 531 ff. and ‘Commerci delle anfore istriane’, Aquileia Nostra 45–46 (1974–1975), 432 ffGoogle Scholar.

49 CIL xv 4582, 4653.

50 Pliny, NH 15. 8. A. Degrassi, ‘Aquileia e l'Istria in età romana’, Studia aquileiesi offerti a G. Brusin (1953), 51 ff. and ‘L'esportazione di olio e olive istriane nell'età romana’, Atti e Memorie della Società Istriana, n.s. 4 (1956), 104 ff.

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53 CIL XI 6695. 77 a–c, III 12010. 4; F. Zevi, art. cit. (n. 15), 29; A. Oxé, Germania 8, 80 ff.

54 M. Callender, op. cit. (n. 6), 183, no. 1101.

55 Pliny, NH 18. 37; Dio 50. 14; CIL v. 8112. 78, III 12010. 30; NSc (1930), 439; (1967), 15.

56 CIL XV 3408.

57 M. Callender, op. cit., 258, no. 1717; CIL x 5056.

58 CIL xv 4660 b–c.

59 CIL xv 4657 b, f–h.

60 M. Callender, op. cit., 103, no. 365; Gnirs, , Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde 4 (1910), 79Google Scholar.

61 CIL v 698.

62 CIL v 8112. 24, 25, 139; III 14371. 7; 12010. 7; xv 3381; v 8110. 207.

63 For viticulture in the region of Aquileia, for example, see Herodian 8. 2. 3, Cassiodorus, Var. 12. 22. I.

64 The literature on individual finds is vast. It is hoped that the works cited in the notes above will open the way for the newcomer into the subject. Particular attention has been paid to the amphorae associated with Italian wine. There has also been a concentration on the Western Mediterranean. Much work still needs to be done on Italy's exports to the East. See Riley, J. A., ‘Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods: the evidence of coarse pottery’ in Barker, G. and Hodges, R., eds., Archaeology and Italian Society (BAR International Series 102, 1981), 69 ff.Google Scholar The amphorae of other areas can reveal similar information about the economy of their regions. The most notable example of this, of course, is the large spheroid oil amphora of Baetica, Dressel 20, on which see Bonsor, G. E., The Archaeological Expedition along the Guadalquivir, 1889–1931 (1931)Google Scholar; Étienne, R., ‘Les amphores du Testaccio au IIIe siècle’, MEFRA 1949, 151 ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar.; Tchernia, A., ‘Amphores et marques d'amphores de Bétique à Pompéi et à Stabies, MEFRA 1964, 419 ff.Google Scholar; A. Tchernia, art. cit. (n. 10), 216 ff.; M. Beltrán Lloris, op. cit. (n. 6); E. Rodriguez Almeida, ‘Novedades de epigrafia anforaria del Monte Testaccio’, Recherches, 107 ff.; A. Guénoche and A. Tchernia, ‘Un modèle descriptif des amphores Dr. 20’, Méthodes Classiques. In particular see now the excellent discussion of the Dressel 20 amphorae from the Claudian wreck at Port-Vendres: D. Colls, Étienne, R. et al. , ‘L'épave Port-Vendres III et le commerce de la Bétique à l'époque de Claude, Archaeonautica 1 (1977)Google Scholar. The finds from this wreck make possible a new interpretation of the tituli picti on the oil amphorae. Most notably the ship was also carrying amphorae of the type known as ‘Haltern 70’. Tituli picti from this wreck now reveal that this was used for carrying wine. The wine of Southern Spain can now be shown to have been widely exported at the same time as the oil of the region. For those who wish to have an introduction to the various types of amphorae with illustrations, there are: M. Beltrán Lloris, op. cit. (n. 6), and also his Cerámica Romaana, Tipologia y Clasificación (Zaragoza). The main types of amphorae are illustrated with only brief commentary by J.-P. Joncheray, Nouvelle Classification des Amphores (second edition, 1976). An excellent introduction to the interpretation of evidence from wrecks is to be found in Parker, A. J., ‘The evidence provided by underwater archaeology for Roman trade in the Western Mediterranean’, in Blackman, D. J., ed., Marine Archaeology (Colston Papers 23, 1971), 361 ff.Google Scholar He provides a fruitful line of research by trying to tie in literary evidence about the produce of an area and the amphorae from the area, for which see also A. J. Parker, ‘Lusitanian amphorae’ in Méthodes Classiques. For petrological analysis of amphorae see many of the contributions to Méthodes Classiques, and for techniques for determining the contents of amphorae see M. C. Rothschild-Boros, ‘The Determination of Amphora Contents’, in G. Barker and R. Hodges, op. cit., 79 ff.

65 Benoit, F., ‘Typologie et épigraphie amphorique’, Rivista di Studi Liguri 23, 1–2 (1957), 279 ffGoogle Scholar. and op. cit. (n. 12), 56 ff.; J. Heurgon, ‘Les Lassii Pompeiens’, PdP 1952, 113.

66 Manacorda, D., JRS 68 (1978), 126Google Scholar.

67 J. H. D'Arms, ‘Republican senators' involvement in commerce in the late Republic: some Ciceronian evidence’, MAAR 36 (1980), 77 ff. and Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome (1981), Chapter 2.

68 Helen, T., The Organisation of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries A.D. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum, 1975)Google Scholar and Setala, P., Private Domini in Roman Brick Stamps of the Empire (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 10, 1977)Google Scholar.

69 Dig. 33. 7. 25: ‘quidam cum in fundo figlinas haberet, figulorum opera maiore parte anni ad opus rusticum utebatur’; Dig. 8. 3. 6: ‘veluti si figlinas haberet, in quibus ea vasa fierent, quibus fructus eius fundi exportarentur (sicut in quibusdam fit, ut amphoris vinum evehatur aut ut dolia fient)’.

70 See previous note.

71 See Dig. 19. I. 6. 4: ‘si vas aliquod mihi vendideris et dixeris certain mensuram capere vel certum pondus habere, ex empto tecum agam si minus praestes’.

72 For sale on the vine: Pliny, NH 14. 48 f.; Pliny, Ep. 8. 2. 1. I do not wish to deny that goods, such as wine, could get to the consumer by a great variety of means. Varro, RR I. 2. 23: ‘ut etiam, si ager secundum viam et opportunus viatoribus locus, aedificandae tabernae deversoriae’; this is just the kind of building found at Boscoreale near Pompeii, see Carrington, J., JRS 21 (1931), 122Google Scholar, no. 28. Some wine would never get to the market at all but go to the owner's town house for his own use: see the amphorae at the House of the Vettii at Pompeii, some of which carried tituli picti detailing from which dolium the wine came and from which estate.

78 F. de Zulueta, The Roman Law of Sale (1945); R. Yaron, ‘The sale of wine’ in D. Daube, ed., Studies in The Roman Law of Sale dedicated to the memory of F. de Zulueta (1959).

74 Dig. 18. 1. 34. 5: ‘Alia causa est degustandi, alia metiendi, gustus enim ad hoc proficit, ut improbare liceat, mensura vero non eo proficit, ut aut plus aut minus veneat, sed ut appareat, quantum ematur’.

75 See Albertario, , ‘Contratti agrari nel de Agri Cultura di Catone’, Studi di Diritto Romano 6 (1953), 273 ff.Google Scholar; J.-H. Michel, ‘L'influence de la lex venditionis sur les régies du contrat de vente’, RIDA (ser. 3) 13 (1966), 325 ff.

76 Dig. 18. 6. 1. I: 18. 6. 4. 2. This period of storage raised problems for the jurists, given the prevalent opinion that the proper completion of a sale was the transference of the goods involved from the seller to the buyer: see the problem discussed in Dig. 41. I. 7 and Gaius, Inst. 2. 79, ‘proinde si ex uvis meis vinum … feceris, quaeritur utrum meura sit id vinum’; see also Dig. 41. 2. 51, and 33. 7. 27. 3.

77 Dig. 19. I. 9: ‘si is, qui lapides ex fundo emerit, tollere eos nolit, ex vendito agi cum eo potest’. For wine see Dig. 18. 6. I. 4.

78 R. Yaron, op. cit. (n. 73), 77, although see the interesting discussion in Dig. 33. 6. 15: ‘illud verum esse puto, cui vinum cum vasis legatum erit, ei amphoras cados, in quibus vina diffusa servamus, legatos esse: vinum enim in amphoras et cados diffundimus, ut in his sit, donec usus causa probetur, et scilicet id vendimus cum his amphoris et cadis: in dolia autem alia mente coicimus, scilicet ut ex his postea vel in amphoras et cados diffundamus vel sine ipsis doliis veneat’.

79 For the plebiscitum Claudianum and the later restriction in the Lex Julia de repetundis, see now D'Arms, J. H., Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome (1981), 31 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

80 As, for example, at the Madrague wreck (see below) and Dramont ’A’ (see n. 38). For a convenient collection of ancient literary sources concerning amphorae see W. Hilgers, Lateinische Gefässnamen (Banner Jahrbucher Beiheft 31, 1969). For attempts to regularize the methods for constructing typologies of amphorae see the articles in Méthodes Classiques.

81 A. Tchernia, op. cit. (n. 40), 33 ff.

82 F. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae (1866), II. 71: ‘quadrantal, quod nunc (second century A.D.) plerique amphoram vocant’. However the technical term ‘quadrantal’ continues to be used (CIL xv. 4619, 4850; VIII 12574).

83 D. Manacorda, in Istituto Gramsci, 24.

84 Dig. 18. I. 71: ‘quibus mensuris aut pretiis negotiatores vina compararent, in contrahentium potestate esse’.

85 For wine measures expressed in terms of weight see the Lex Silia de ponderibus publicis (FIRA I.79): ‘uti quadrantal vini LXXX pondo siet’; Carmen de ponderibus (Hultsch, Met. scr., no. 120; 1, 91 ff.) in which a formula is given for the approximate weight relation between identical capacities of wine, oil, and honey.

86 Cockle, H., JRS 71 (1981), 87 ff.Google Scholar