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a) Cumulative CPR chart based on the data of all the individual workshops of the study area (grey) and Mean CPR (black) combining the cumulative data; b) a simpler view of the Mean CPR (black), showing general economic trends (figure by I. González Tobar).
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During the first few centuries AD, Rome and the imperial frontiers were supplied with olive oil from the province of Hispania Baetica (southern Spain). Vast quantities of oil were exported in Dressel 20 amphorae. But how did the agricultural economy of Baetica relate to global demand and how did it change over time? The author focuses on relative c...
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... combination of all the CPRs of all the workshops across the study area (Figure 5a: grey) yields a Mean CPR (Figure 5a: black); the data simplified in Figure 5b provide a clearer view. As noted above, the raw figures of the Mean CPR can then be scaled to account for uneven time intervals used by the two different chrono-typological schemes. ...
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... combination of all the CPRs of all the workshops across the study area (Figure 5a: grey) yields a Mean CPR (Figure 5a: black); the data simplified in Figure 5b provide a clearer view. As noted above, the raw figures of the Mean CPR can then be scaled to account for uneven time intervals used by the two different chrono-typological schemes. ...
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... combination of all the CPRs of all the workshops across the study area (Figure 5a: grey) yields a Mean CPR (Figure 5a: black); the data simplified in Figure 5b provide a clearer view. As noted above, the raw figures of the Mean CPR can then be scaled to account for uneven time intervals used by the two different chrono-typological schemes. ...
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... The discovered amphorae are mostly of the Dressel type. Dressel 20-type amphorae, attested from the Augustan age up to the second century AD [8], were used to contain the oil coming from the Roman province of Betica. This province, conquered by the Romans in 218 BC and located on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the current Spanish region of Andalusia, was a large producer of olive oil and Betic oil, which were much appreciated by the Romans. ...
This study reports the analytical investigations on clayey and ceramic finds, characterised by high variability in terms of prime materials, with the aim to determine the role of this important ceramic production situated close to the city walls, fortuitously found during service excavations developed in the garden of Palazzo Corsini in Rome. The complexity of the finds led to the choices of appropriate methodologies and techniques suitable for defining the diagnostic elements of each find. Optical microscopy (OM) combined with micro-Raman (µ-Raman) spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS), and differential thermal analysis (DTA) were used to analyse the nature and microstructure of the ceramic and burned clay that were found. In such a complicated setting, the objective of conducting chemical analyses is to provide clues to describe the various kinds of ceramics produced, the production and processing methods, and, as a result, the typology of the workshop.
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