IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1629: Food and Feast in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Sardinia
Thursday 7 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Università degli Studi di Cagliari |
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| Organiser: | Rossana Martorelli, Dipartimento di Storia, Beni culturali e Territorio, Università degli Studi di Cagliari |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alex Metcalfe, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Paper 1629-a | Early Christian Feasts near Graves: Ordinary or Ritual Meals? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Paper 1629-b | Food Trade, Feeding, and Standards of Living in 6th- and 7th-Century Sardinia: The Example of Donori's Lex portus (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Epigraphy |
| Paper 1629-c | South Sardinia within Routes of Food Transport in the Roman Period (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | The session focuses on food circulation in the island of Sardinia, from the Late Roman period to Late Antiquity and the early phases of its Byzantine domination. The first paper presents the evidence of daily life and the practice of ritual meals in cemeteries. A mirror of food and trade circulation comes from an epigraphical document: the so-called Lex portus, which will be presented by the second paper. The final paper will analyse the relations between trade and ports, thanks to the recent discoveries of marine archaeology. |