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Research paper thumbnail of I porti romani nel Mar Rosso da Augusto al tardoantico

This volume draws upon the scholarship on the international trade between the Roman Empire and Ea... more This volume draws upon the scholarship on the international trade between the Roman Empire and Eastern regions such as Arabia, Ethiopia and India. Such trade has been often described by ancient sources as a flourishing and very expensive one. More in detail, the book focuses on the life and the development of the ports on the Red Sea, controlled by Rome. These ports acted for centuries as international hubs, linking points between West and East, and they were the gates though which the eastern merchandise would reach the Roman markets. Keeping these remote settlements alive required a big effort on the part of the imperial administration, and some degree of planning to choose how and when to invest in the area. So, over the centuries, the geography of such ports changed dramatically. Most works published so far have explained such changes in terms of decline and economic shrinking, due to the “late antique phase” of the Roman Empire. This monograph looks for a different explanation and stretches the analysis into the late antique period, showing hot it was not simply a period of decline and economic recession, but rather of reorganisation. The volume aims finally to reach a new and more full level of understanding of the Roman economic policy in the Red Sea between the first century BC and the sixth AD.

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Research paper thumbnail of A global crisis? The Mediterranean World between the 3rd and the 5th century CE

The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global hi... more The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global history and globalisation theories by Roman historians and archaeologists. This approach highlights the characteristics of the Roman Empire as an interconnected world, where numerous cultural, economic, and religious exchanges took place, creating everywhere a common cultural veneer considered as ‘Roman’. According to these theories, during the Roman period the Mediterranean knew a high level of economic, cultural, technological, juridical, and religious connection. What happened when these connections were partially interrupted by a ‘crisis’ period?
This book aims to challenge the concepts of globalisation in the Roman Empire, analysing the periods of ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’ between the 3rd and the 5th century CE. Modern scholarship usually assumes that this connectivity came to an abrupt interruption during a period of crisis. Despite abundant scholarly works on the subject, no satisfactory and shared theory of crisis exists. Combining globalisation and crisis as objects of analysis, we aim to explore whether the diverse range of trading and cultural connections – implied by globalisation theories – would continue or be disrupted once the imperial world supposedly almost collapsed. The discussion follows a number of principal themes, including the transformations of the Roman Empire, the nature of interconnections between Rome and its provinces, the creation of new forms of connection, and the development of new identities.
Whether ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’ are the appropriate words to describe these phenomena is one of our main concerns: how can we theoretically define the concepts of ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’? How were these two concepts related to each other? Shall we use these terms to define the phenomena that affected the Roman Empire between the 3rd and the 5th century CE? Despite being apparently opposite phenomena, crisis and connectivity were both characterising the later phase of the Roman Empire. Our aim is to collect a number of essays that will address these complex phenomena from different points of view.

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Research paper thumbnail of ECONOMIA E FRONTIERA NELL'IMPERO ROMANO, a cura di Dario Nappo e Giovanna D. Merola (Pragmateiai 32), Edipuglia 2021

ECONOMIA E FRONTIERA NELL'IMPERO ROMANO, a cura di Dario Nappo e Giovanna D. Merola , 2021

Il volume raccoglie i testi presentati al Convegno “Economia e frontiera nel mondo romano”, tenut... more Il volume raccoglie i testi presentati al Convegno “Economia e frontiera nel mondo romano”, tenutosi nel mese di ottobre del 2019 presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. Il Convegno ha rappresentato il momento conclusivo del progetto di ricerca “INDevelopment” (di durata biennale, parte del programma STAR), che si proponeva di dare conto della specificità delle aree di frontiera, soprattutto dal punto di vista economico. In queste zone il sistema romano entrava in rapporto con realtà sociali, culturali ed economiche differenti; tale contatto creava fenomeni peculiari di intercambio (commercio transfrontaliero, importazioni ed esportazioni di merci, scambi culturali) e di controllo (attraverso le milizie, ma anche con provvedimenti fiscali).

Non c’è nel volume una pretesa di esaustività o di organicità. Piuttosto, l’intenzione dei curatori è stata quella di raccogliere una serie di “casi economicamente extra-ordinari”, per dare testimonianza di una realtà che nel mondo romano non era classificabile come ordinaria amministrazione: la vita economica di una provincia di frontiera. La rassegna cerca di toccare scenari geograficamente diversi, che vanno dall’Occidente fino all’Oriente e si spingono persino fuori di quelle che sono considerate le tradizionali frontiere romane, toccando il tema dei rapporti commerciali con il continente indiano.

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Research paper thumbnail of Jotabe and Leuke Kome: Customs gates from Byzantine to Roman time

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Research paper thumbnail of Gramsci, Lepore e Roma Antica

Ettore Lepore e la storia antica. Eredità, attualità, prospettive, 2023

Il tema di questo lavoro riguarda la relazione tra la metodologia della ricerca storica di Ettore... more Il tema di questo lavoro riguarda la relazione tra la metodologia della ricerca
storica di Ettore Lepore, talune categorie storiche elaborate dalla riflessione di Antonio Gramsci e il rapporto di queste con la produzione scientifica nel campo della storia romana. Non si tratta di una ricerca esaustiva, ma piuttosto l’obiettivo è quello di mettere in evidenza alcuni degli aspetti meno valorizzati sia della elaborazione teorica di Gramsci sia del loro uso nell’officina storica di Lepore. Il punto di partenza che si propone è una riflessione di Lepore su Gramsci e sull’impatto che questi ebbe sul mondo della cultura in Italia

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Research paper thumbnail of On the location of Leuke Kome

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Gramsci's view of Late Antiquity

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Globalization, the highest stage of modernization?

Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of A Case of Arbitrage in a Worldwide Trade: Roman Coins in India

Managing Information in the Roman Economy, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of The Abandonment of Myos Hormos

Before/After: Transformation, Change, and Abandonment in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean, 2020

The paper focuses on the development and the decline of the ancient settlement of Myos Hormos, wh... more The paper focuses on the development and the decline of the ancient settlement of Myos Hormos, which was a
prominent port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Many writers from the first centuries BCE and CE agree on describing
it as one of the most important commercial hubs of the area, along the more southern port of Berenike. Still, while
Berenike kept its functionality well into the late antique period, Myos Hormos was abandoned and fell out of use for
no evident reason at some point along the third century CE. This decline has been explained by most scholars as a
consequence of the third century crisis that stroke the Empire, and that triggered a steady regression of the Roman
trading activities in the Red Sea. In this paper a different point of view is offered: the demise of Myos Hormos would
not have anything to do with commercial decline nor with the shrinking of the trading horizon of the Romans, but
it was rather the consequence of an adjustement of the organisation of the Red Sea area that started during the
second century CE.

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Research paper thumbnail of Primitivistic Quantification: an Infantile Disorder

UOMINI, ISTITUZIONI, MERCATI Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio, 2019

A short note on quantitative analysis applied to the ancient economies and the methodological iss... more A short note on quantitative analysis applied to the ancient economies and the methodological issues related to it

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Research paper thumbnail of On Diocletian’s So-Called Abdication

Koinonia, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Money and Flows of Coinage in the Red Sea Trade

A. Wilson and A. Bowman, Trade, Commerce, and State in the Roman World. OUP, 2018

The paper analyses the evidence about export of coinage from the Roman Empire to India, to unders... more The paper analyses the evidence about export of coinage from the Roman Empire to India, to understand what kind of information it is possible to reconstruct about volume and trends of trade.

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Research paper thumbnail of JOTABE AND LEUKE KOME: Customs gates from Byzantine to Roman time

Incidenza Dell'Antico, 2015

The article compares two customs gates in the Red Sea during Roman and Byzantine rule. The main a... more The article compares two customs gates in the Red Sea during Roman and Byzantine rule. The main assumption is that it is possible to shed some light on some elements of the Roman organisation, starting from the analysis of the Byzantine one.

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Research paper thumbnail of L’antica Grecia vista dal Giappone: l’ “Occidentalismo” di Go Nagai

Da: La Fabbrica della Storia (edd. M.G Castello ed E. Belligni) La ricezione del mondo classico, ... more Da: La Fabbrica della Storia (edd. M.G Castello ed E. Belligni)
La ricezione del mondo classico, in particolare greco, nell'opera del mangaka giapponese Go Nagai.

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Research paper thumbnail of ATRA 1: Materiality and Identity

In each and every discourse on issues such as contact, evolution, transition, migration, integrat... more In each and every discourse on issues such as contact, evolution, transition, migration, integration and encounter, identity plays a central role. Being a manifold, uneasily describable object in itself, identity represents a very difficult object of study and many scholars from different disciplines of the human sciences (psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and linguists) have tried in recent years to give their contribution to the debate born around it. In the two meetings organized in Naples, April 14th 2015 and Turin, October 8-9th 2015 in the framework of the ATrA project, the issue has been discussed by archaeologists, linguists, philologists and anthropologists specifically adopting the perspective of observing and discussing identity through a reflection on its material manifestations in transitional contexts (be it in terms of language, of economical exchanges or of traditional handicraft). This book is a collection of selected papers from those meetings.

The book is downloadable for free from the link below

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Research paper thumbnail of On the fringe: Trade and Taxation in the Egyptian Eastern Desert

Frontiers of the Roman World, (O. Hekster and T. Kaizer edd.), Leiden, Brill, 2011.

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Research paper thumbnail of IL TERZO SECOLO D.C. E IL COMMERCIO ROMANO NEL MAR ROSSO: CRISI O TRASFORMAZIONE?

Studia Historica. Historia Antigua. 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of When the Waters recede. The economic impact of tsunamis in the Greco-Roman world

REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE 91, 2013, 45-68

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Research paper thumbnail of THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI “L'ORIENTALE” TO THE 2013-2014 ERITREAN-ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SEASON AT ADULIS

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Research paper thumbnail of I porti romani nel Mar Rosso da Augusto al tardoantico

This volume draws upon the scholarship on the international trade between the Roman Empire and Ea... more This volume draws upon the scholarship on the international trade between the Roman Empire and Eastern regions such as Arabia, Ethiopia and India. Such trade has been often described by ancient sources as a flourishing and very expensive one. More in detail, the book focuses on the life and the development of the ports on the Red Sea, controlled by Rome. These ports acted for centuries as international hubs, linking points between West and East, and they were the gates though which the eastern merchandise would reach the Roman markets. Keeping these remote settlements alive required a big effort on the part of the imperial administration, and some degree of planning to choose how and when to invest in the area. So, over the centuries, the geography of such ports changed dramatically. Most works published so far have explained such changes in terms of decline and economic shrinking, due to the “late antique phase” of the Roman Empire. This monograph looks for a different explanation and stretches the analysis into the late antique period, showing hot it was not simply a period of decline and economic recession, but rather of reorganisation. The volume aims finally to reach a new and more full level of understanding of the Roman economic policy in the Red Sea between the first century BC and the sixth AD.

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Research paper thumbnail of A global crisis? The Mediterranean World between the 3rd and the 5th century CE

The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global hi... more The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global history and globalisation theories by Roman historians and archaeologists. This approach highlights the characteristics of the Roman Empire as an interconnected world, where numerous cultural, economic, and religious exchanges took place, creating everywhere a common cultural veneer considered as ‘Roman’. According to these theories, during the Roman period the Mediterranean knew a high level of economic, cultural, technological, juridical, and religious connection. What happened when these connections were partially interrupted by a ‘crisis’ period?
This book aims to challenge the concepts of globalisation in the Roman Empire, analysing the periods of ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’ between the 3rd and the 5th century CE. Modern scholarship usually assumes that this connectivity came to an abrupt interruption during a period of crisis. Despite abundant scholarly works on the subject, no satisfactory and shared theory of crisis exists. Combining globalisation and crisis as objects of analysis, we aim to explore whether the diverse range of trading and cultural connections – implied by globalisation theories – would continue or be disrupted once the imperial world supposedly almost collapsed. The discussion follows a number of principal themes, including the transformations of the Roman Empire, the nature of interconnections between Rome and its provinces, the creation of new forms of connection, and the development of new identities.
Whether ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’ are the appropriate words to describe these phenomena is one of our main concerns: how can we theoretically define the concepts of ‘crisis’ and ‘recovery’? How were these two concepts related to each other? Shall we use these terms to define the phenomena that affected the Roman Empire between the 3rd and the 5th century CE? Despite being apparently opposite phenomena, crisis and connectivity were both characterising the later phase of the Roman Empire. Our aim is to collect a number of essays that will address these complex phenomena from different points of view.

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Research paper thumbnail of ECONOMIA E FRONTIERA NELL'IMPERO ROMANO, a cura di Dario Nappo e Giovanna D. Merola (Pragmateiai 32), Edipuglia 2021

ECONOMIA E FRONTIERA NELL'IMPERO ROMANO, a cura di Dario Nappo e Giovanna D. Merola , 2021

Il volume raccoglie i testi presentati al Convegno “Economia e frontiera nel mondo romano”, tenut... more Il volume raccoglie i testi presentati al Convegno “Economia e frontiera nel mondo romano”, tenutosi nel mese di ottobre del 2019 presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. Il Convegno ha rappresentato il momento conclusivo del progetto di ricerca “INDevelopment” (di durata biennale, parte del programma STAR), che si proponeva di dare conto della specificità delle aree di frontiera, soprattutto dal punto di vista economico. In queste zone il sistema romano entrava in rapporto con realtà sociali, culturali ed economiche differenti; tale contatto creava fenomeni peculiari di intercambio (commercio transfrontaliero, importazioni ed esportazioni di merci, scambi culturali) e di controllo (attraverso le milizie, ma anche con provvedimenti fiscali).

Non c’è nel volume una pretesa di esaustività o di organicità. Piuttosto, l’intenzione dei curatori è stata quella di raccogliere una serie di “casi economicamente extra-ordinari”, per dare testimonianza di una realtà che nel mondo romano non era classificabile come ordinaria amministrazione: la vita economica di una provincia di frontiera. La rassegna cerca di toccare scenari geograficamente diversi, che vanno dall’Occidente fino all’Oriente e si spingono persino fuori di quelle che sono considerate le tradizionali frontiere romane, toccando il tema dei rapporti commerciali con il continente indiano.

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Research paper thumbnail of Jotabe and Leuke Kome: Customs gates from Byzantine to Roman time

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Research paper thumbnail of Gramsci, Lepore e Roma Antica

Ettore Lepore e la storia antica. Eredità, attualità, prospettive, 2023

Il tema di questo lavoro riguarda la relazione tra la metodologia della ricerca storica di Ettore... more Il tema di questo lavoro riguarda la relazione tra la metodologia della ricerca
storica di Ettore Lepore, talune categorie storiche elaborate dalla riflessione di Antonio Gramsci e il rapporto di queste con la produzione scientifica nel campo della storia romana. Non si tratta di una ricerca esaustiva, ma piuttosto l’obiettivo è quello di mettere in evidenza alcuni degli aspetti meno valorizzati sia della elaborazione teorica di Gramsci sia del loro uso nell’officina storica di Lepore. Il punto di partenza che si propone è una riflessione di Lepore su Gramsci e sull’impatto che questi ebbe sul mondo della cultura in Italia

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Research paper thumbnail of On the location of Leuke Kome

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Gramsci's view of Late Antiquity

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Globalization, the highest stage of modernization?

Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of A Case of Arbitrage in a Worldwide Trade: Roman Coins in India

Managing Information in the Roman Economy, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of The Abandonment of Myos Hormos

Before/After: Transformation, Change, and Abandonment in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean, 2020

The paper focuses on the development and the decline of the ancient settlement of Myos Hormos, wh... more The paper focuses on the development and the decline of the ancient settlement of Myos Hormos, which was a
prominent port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Many writers from the first centuries BCE and CE agree on describing
it as one of the most important commercial hubs of the area, along the more southern port of Berenike. Still, while
Berenike kept its functionality well into the late antique period, Myos Hormos was abandoned and fell out of use for
no evident reason at some point along the third century CE. This decline has been explained by most scholars as a
consequence of the third century crisis that stroke the Empire, and that triggered a steady regression of the Roman
trading activities in the Red Sea. In this paper a different point of view is offered: the demise of Myos Hormos would
not have anything to do with commercial decline nor with the shrinking of the trading horizon of the Romans, but
it was rather the consequence of an adjustement of the organisation of the Red Sea area that started during the
second century CE.

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Research paper thumbnail of Primitivistic Quantification: an Infantile Disorder

UOMINI, ISTITUZIONI, MERCATI Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio, 2019

A short note on quantitative analysis applied to the ancient economies and the methodological iss... more A short note on quantitative analysis applied to the ancient economies and the methodological issues related to it

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Research paper thumbnail of On Diocletian’s So-Called Abdication

Koinonia, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Money and Flows of Coinage in the Red Sea Trade

A. Wilson and A. Bowman, Trade, Commerce, and State in the Roman World. OUP, 2018

The paper analyses the evidence about export of coinage from the Roman Empire to India, to unders... more The paper analyses the evidence about export of coinage from the Roman Empire to India, to understand what kind of information it is possible to reconstruct about volume and trends of trade.

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Research paper thumbnail of JOTABE AND LEUKE KOME: Customs gates from Byzantine to Roman time

Incidenza Dell'Antico, 2015

The article compares two customs gates in the Red Sea during Roman and Byzantine rule. The main a... more The article compares two customs gates in the Red Sea during Roman and Byzantine rule. The main assumption is that it is possible to shed some light on some elements of the Roman organisation, starting from the analysis of the Byzantine one.

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Research paper thumbnail of L’antica Grecia vista dal Giappone: l’ “Occidentalismo” di Go Nagai

Da: La Fabbrica della Storia (edd. M.G Castello ed E. Belligni) La ricezione del mondo classico, ... more Da: La Fabbrica della Storia (edd. M.G Castello ed E. Belligni)
La ricezione del mondo classico, in particolare greco, nell'opera del mangaka giapponese Go Nagai.

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Research paper thumbnail of ATRA 1: Materiality and Identity

In each and every discourse on issues such as contact, evolution, transition, migration, integrat... more In each and every discourse on issues such as contact, evolution, transition, migration, integration and encounter, identity plays a central role. Being a manifold, uneasily describable object in itself, identity represents a very difficult object of study and many scholars from different disciplines of the human sciences (psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and linguists) have tried in recent years to give their contribution to the debate born around it. In the two meetings organized in Naples, April 14th 2015 and Turin, October 8-9th 2015 in the framework of the ATrA project, the issue has been discussed by archaeologists, linguists, philologists and anthropologists specifically adopting the perspective of observing and discussing identity through a reflection on its material manifestations in transitional contexts (be it in terms of language, of economical exchanges or of traditional handicraft). This book is a collection of selected papers from those meetings.

The book is downloadable for free from the link below

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Research paper thumbnail of On the fringe: Trade and Taxation in the Egyptian Eastern Desert

Frontiers of the Roman World, (O. Hekster and T. Kaizer edd.), Leiden, Brill, 2011.

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Research paper thumbnail of IL TERZO SECOLO D.C. E IL COMMERCIO ROMANO NEL MAR ROSSO: CRISI O TRASFORMAZIONE?

Studia Historica. Historia Antigua. 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of When the Waters recede. The economic impact of tsunamis in the Greco-Roman world

REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE 91, 2013, 45-68

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Research paper thumbnail of THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI “L'ORIENTALE” TO THE 2013-2014 ERITREAN-ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SEASON AT ADULIS

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Research paper thumbnail of Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the second century AD

The paper investigates the level and the nature of the engagement of the Roman imperial governmen... more The paper investigates the level and the nature of the engagement of the Roman imperial government in the Red Sea trade during the second century AD.

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Research paper thumbnail of On the Location of Leuke Kome

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 23 (2010)

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Research paper thumbnail of Roman Policy in the Red Sea between Anastasius and Justinian

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Research paper thumbnail of THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI “L'ORIENTALE” TO THE 2013-2014 ERITREAN-ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SEASON AT ADULIS

Archaeological research of UNO at Adulis has had as a goal, during the 2014 field season, to cont... more Archaeological research of UNO at Adulis has had as a goal, during the 2014 field season, to continue the setting of the chronological sequence started in 2011 (Zazzaro, Cocca and Manzo 2014), to better understand the connection among the town, the river and the sea, to investigate the local economy and trade networks through archaeological finds. At this aim, excavations started in 2011 in sectors 1 and 3 have been pursued. A new trench, sector 5, was opened to the South of the town, on the river edge, and a short - few hours survey - was conducted towards the coast for recording new archaeological evidence uncovered by the flood in November 2013.

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Research paper thumbnail of INDO-ROMAN TRADE - (F.) De Romanis The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus. Pp. xxvi + 381, figs, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-0-19-884234-7

The Classical Review

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Research paper thumbnail of ANCIENT ECONOMY AND CHANGE - (F.) Lerouxel, (J.) Zurbach (edd.) Le changement dans les économies antiques. (Scripta Antiqua 140.) Pp. 395, figs, b/w & colour ills, maps. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2020. Paper, €25. ISBN: 978-2-35613-346-5

The Classical Review

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Research paper thumbnail of Jacopo Bassi, Gianluca Canè (a cura di). Sulle spalle degli antichi. Eredità classica e costruzione delle identità nazionali nel Novecento. Milano: Unicopli, 2014. 278 pp

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of: The Onomasticon of Iudaea-Palaestina and Arabia in the Greek and Latin Sources, vol. I: Introduction, Sources, Major Texts, written by Leah Di Segni, Yoram Tsafrir, with Judith Green

Annali Sezione Orientale, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Review to: I. Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the sixth Century. II. Part 2. Economic, Social, and Cultural History; and to G. Fisher, Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Call for papers: Critical Globalisation: A Theoretical Framework for the 'Crisis' of the 3rd century

TRAC - Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, 2020

The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global hi... more The Roman Empire has been recently considered a valid case study for the application of global history and globalisation theories by Roman historians and archaeologists (Pitts and Versluys 2014, Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture). This approach highlights the characteristics of the Roman Empire as an interconnected world, where numerous cultural, economic, and religious exchanges took place, creating everywhere a common cultural veneer considered as ‘Roman’.
This panel aims to challenge the concepts of globalisation in the Roman Empire, using as case study the ‘crisis’ of the 3rd century CE. Current scholarship assumes that this connectivity came to an abrupt interruption during that period of crisis (Hekster, de Kleijn and Slootjes 2007, Crises and the Roman Empire). Despite abundant scholarly works on the subject, no satisfactory and shared theory of crisis exists. Combining globalisation and crisis as object of analysis, this panel explores whether the diverse range of trading and cultural Roman links, implied by the globalisation theories, would continue or be disrupted once the imperial world supposedly almost collapsed.
Our main questions are how can we theoretically define the crisis that affected the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE: economic, political, or military? Did it affect the connections across the Roman Empire and how far and how fast did they change? Finally, whether globalisation and crisis were two phenomena mirroring each other, and to what extent was (or was not) a global empire more prone to experience a global crisis?

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