Window on ancient maritime trade: a shipwreck off Spain's Costa Brava yields clues to Roman commerce
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A well-executed exhibition at the Aquarium of Barcelona, Spain, tells the story of an ancient Roman shipwreck excavated in Culip Cove by the Centre d'Arqueologia Subaquatica de Catalunya. The cargo carried by the ship has been identified, shedding light on how maritime commerce was conducted during the Roman Empire. The evidence suggests that the ship was carrying a variety of goods from the principal port of Narbo to a secondary port such as Municipium Emporiae, now called Empuries, below Cap de Creus. The ship carried olive oil from Andalusia, wine from the Rhone River Valley and North Africa, and terracotta lamps from a Roman lamp-maker.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1996
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A Balkan journal: reflections on a stay in Croatia on the eve of war
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Putting together a traveling museum exhibition calling for cooperation among republics in the former Yugoslavia still seemed feasible during a trip in 1988, before the outbreak of hostilities. In Salona, on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, a 13-month salvage operation was being conducted in advance of road construction. However, many religious structures and historic monuments would soon be destroyed by bombardments.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1995
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Bacchic mysteries; spiritual life in antiquity
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Developments in the study of Greco-Roman mystery cults are discussed. The most widespread was that of Dionysus, the god of wine and also of drama and the mask. Initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries could also belong to the mystery cults of Dionysus or Isis.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 2001
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