Conveners
RT 6 - RT POMPEII, MINTURNAE, MASSALIA, HISPANIA: NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRADE, 200-50 BCE
- Clive Stannard (University of Leicester)
RT 6 - RT POMPEII, MINTURNAE, MASSALIA, HISPANIA: NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRADE, 200-50 BCE
- Clive Stannard (Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick)
Description
Org.: Clive Stannard and Alejandro G. Sinner; moderator: Clive Stannard
In central Italy, a period of rapid economic growth followed the Second Punic War. It saw deep monetisation of markets, but also a severe dearth of small change. This obliged communities and social groups to make their own local, non-state coinages. A new understanding of these coinages at Minturnae and Pompeii, and in Latium generally, as well as coin finds from Minturnae and Rome, throw new light on burgeoning trade with Carthage, Gaul and Hispania, as well as with the Greek East.
• At Pompeii, the non-state coinages imitated Carthage, Ebusus, Massalia and Rome. Some relate to the wine trade to Gaul during the period before Pompeii’s defeat by Sulla in the Social War (89 BCE), as finds near Massalia show.
• There seem to be separate coinages associated with different groups of traders from Pompeii and Minturnae.
• Minturnae was active in the exploitation of the rich coastal silver/lead mines around Cartagena in the second century BCE, and those of the Sierra Morena in the interior, during the first century.
• Bronze coins and lead pieces with ‘Italo-Baetican’ types are found in both Latium and Baetica. They appear to have been made between about 150 and 50 BCE by a trading group which used the port of Minturnae.
• This group seems to have managed a publica societas handling agricultural goods at Corduba in the first century, and to have been involved in Roman politics in the 80s.
The Round Table will explore the social and legal nature of Campanian maritime trade, and its development over time, using numismatic, archaeological, epigraphic and historical data.
List of panelists:
Alejandro G. Sinner
Koenraad Verboven
Clive Stannard
Marta Barbato
Albert Ribera I Lacomba
Suzanne Frey-Kupper
Jean-Albert Chevillon
Michele Stefanile
Bartolomé Mora Serrano
Alfred Hirt
a) Roman and Campanian settlement and trade, led by Michele Stefanile.
b) Mining and Roman Imperialism: Mining, metal supply, provincial administration, led by Alfred Hirt.
c) The social and economic institutions of trade in the western Mediterranean in the last two centuries BCE, led by Koenraad Verboven.
d) Conclusions, and opportunities and priorities for further work, led by Suzanne Frey-Kupper.
