Salt in Roman Dacia
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80583-111-2 (ISBN)
The study of salt in Roman times has not benefitted from the attention paid to the exploitation of other subsoil resources like metals. This is the result of the scarcity not only of sources concerning the exploitation itself, but also of those that provide indirect information (like aspects of mining, trade or especially administration), compounded by the lack of archaeological research on this resource (particularly when compared with the archaeology of salt in prehistory or the archaeology of Roman mining). The main objectives of this volume are to analyse the existing archaeological research on salt exploitation in Roman Dacia, and to discuss the epigraphic information to better understand salt exploitation and administration as well as the relationship between mining and administrative staff and the military personnel. Based on this information, a global view of salt exploitation in Roman Dacia is presented, and the particularities of salt production, industry and consumption in this province are compared with the Roman world.
Lucrețiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba is Professor of Ancient History at „Alexandrui Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. He studied at Iași (Romania), Poitiers and Paris (France) and completed his PhD in Cluj-Napoca and Paris. His work deals especially with Roman social and economic history, with migration, colonisation and Romanisation. He was DAAD-Fellow at Köln, Marburg, Konstanz and Trier, and Visiting Professor at Innsbruck and Valenciennes.
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Researches on salt production and salt industry in the Roman Empire
2. Researches on salt archaeology and salt history in Roman Dacia
I. Salt exploitation in Roman Dacia: archaeological evidence
1. Salt exploitation in pre-Roman period
2. Salt exploitation in Roman period
3. Conclusions
II. Salt administration in Roman Dacia
1. Introduction
2. Conductores
3. Lower-ranked personnel of the saltwork administration
4. Conclusions
Annex 1: Supplementum epigraphicum
Annex 2: Salt resources in the proximity of inscription locations
III. The Roman army and salt exploitation in Dacia
1. Introduction
2. Military camps and fortifications near salt resources
3. Conclusions
IV. Religious aspects of salt mining in Roman Dacia
1. The cult of Terra Mater
2. The cult of other divinities related to mining activities
3. Neptune and Salacia in Roman Dacia
4. Conclusions
V. Conclusions
Supplementum Epigraphicum
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Archaeopress Roman Archaeology |
| Zusatzinfo | 51 figures (colour throughout) |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 597 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80583-111-9 / 1805831119 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80583-111-2 / 9781805831112 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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