Late Roman viticulture in Rough Cilicia

An unusual wine-press at Antiochia ad Cragum

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ID12373600
AutoresErengul Dodd (0000-0003-0834-4492, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen33
Páginas467-482
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Roman Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1047-7594 • E-ISSN: 2331-5709
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1047759420001129
OpenAlexW3020260691
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

Rough Cilicia is well-known for the number of wine-presses found, 1 which shows that viticulture was important locally as well as wine being a likely candidate for export. 2 Excavation and survey here has generally lagged behind other regions, 3 and work at Antiochia ad Cragum (Güney Köyü, Gazipaşa) in particular is relatively recent, starting with the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project (RCSP) and continuing with its offshoot, the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP). 4 The city, founded by Antiochus IV of Commagene in the Julio-Claudian period, lies on an important road along the S coast with direct links to settlements of the central Anatolian plateau; 5 it also lies on the maritime trade route extending from Syria and Palestine to Constantinople and the area of the Black Sea, with another going to central and W Mediterranean lands. 6 Occupied continuously from the Imperial to the Byzantine period, 7 it achieved a considerable size

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