THE ECONOMY OF CILICIA INLATE ANTIQUITY

Hugh ELTON

Makale detayları

THE ECONOMY OF CILICIA INLATE ANTIQUITY

Yazarlar:

Hugh ELTON

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.167-184

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532197

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667

Özet:

 

At Domuztepe in eastern Cilicia, about 12 km north of Castabala and
 55 km inland, there is a late Roman country house. With no inscriptions
 recovered from the site, we know little about the owners. Although the
 house lay on the river Pyramus, it lay above the point where the river was
 navigable. Nonetheless, the house owners were able to buy pottery imported
 from other parts of the Mediterranean world. From western Anatolia they
 received Phocaean red slip tableware and LR 3 amphorae, while from
 North Africa they received more red slipped tableware.1 The imported
 ceramics thus show links between Cilicia (here broadly defined as the area
 between the river Melas in the west and the Amanus mountains in the east)
 and the Mediterranean economy as a whole during the fourth to seventh
 centuries AD. Domuztepe was not simply a residential site, but was also
 involved in the production of olive oil. It had a large oil press with a tank
 that seems too big for domestic needs (1.85 m in diameter, capacity 5000
 litres). Domuztepe can be used not just to show links, but to outline a much
 more complex understanding of the way in which Cilicia was integrated
 into the Mediterranean economy.

Makale detayları

THE ECONOMY OF CILICIA INLATE ANTIQUITY

Yazarlar: Hugh ELTON

Yayıncı: Mersin University

Dergi: OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.167-184

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 10/2003

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000532197

Sıklık: Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-6558

pISSN: 1301-7667

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Hugh ELTON

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.167-184

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532197

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667