Il “Calcidico” di Lepcis Magna era un mercato di schiavi?

Braconi, Paolo

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“…Although a number of putative sites in Roman Italy, North Africa, and Anatolia have been discussed by Elizabeth Fentress and her colleagues, their findings were heavily critiqued by Monika Trümper, whose repudiation of the concept of purpose-built slave markets led her to conclude that Graeco-Roman slave markets are an 'archaeological fiction'. 61 While Trümper's conclusion was perhaps overly negative, her work nonetheless highlights the inherent difficulties associated with the study of these sites. These difficulties are further illustrated in a survey of nineteenth-century slave trading in northern Ghana by Benjamin Kankpeyeng, who noted that the only surviving evidence for the slave market at Salaga (the largest and most important in the region) comprises the mud roof of a warehouse where captives were apparently held during inclement weather.…”

Section: Comparative Archaeologies and Histories Of Slave Marketsmentioning

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The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’

Raffield¹

2019

Slavery & Abolition

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Slaving was a prominent activity among raiding and mercantile groups operating across the early medieval world during the Viking Age (c. 750-1050 CE). Historical sources provide explicit descriptions of widespread raiding and slave taking by Viking raiders, as well as a substantial trade in captive peoples. Archaeologists, however, have long-struggled to identify evidence for the transportation and sale of captives in the material record. In order to begin addressing this issue, this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world.

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Section: Comparative Archaeologies and Histories Of Slave Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’

Raffield¹

2019

Slavery & Abolition

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A promenade at Lepcis Magna: Experiencing buildings from the Augustan to the Antonine era

Mugnai

2021

Libyan Stud

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This article investigates the visibility of public edifices at Lepcis Magna (Lebdah, Libya) and how people in antiquity approached, lived, and experienced them. It engages with the buildings’ layout, architectural and sculptural ornamentation, and epigraphic apparatuses, looking at the transformations of the cityscape from Augustus to the Antonine era. The analysis highlights the importance of private and public patronage and how social status was showcased through the monumentality and visibility of new constructions in an evolving urban environment. Buildings and their ornament drew upon a range of architectural and decorative models: influences from the centre of Empire and the Mediterranean world, long-lasting Hellenistic traditions, as well as North African and locally created, or reinterpreted, motifs that contributed to shaping the Lepcitanian architectural taste.

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The Jetty with Platform: A Distinctive Port Structure from North Africa

Stone

2016

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A distinctive type of artificial port structure has been found in Africa proconsularis, but not elsewhere in the Mediterranean. This structure is identified here as a ‘jetty with platform’, due to its main components: a straight jetty extending from the shoreline and a large platform attached to the outer end of the jetty. The article considers the chronological, environmental, and technological factors that may be responsible for the construction of this type of jetty, which is found at Acholla, Gigthis, Leptiminus, Ras Segala, and possibly Lepcis Magna.

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Il “Calcidico” di Lepcis Magna era un mercato di schiavi?

Cited by 4 publications

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The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’

The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’

A promenade at Lepcis Magna: Experiencing buildings from the Augustan to the Antonine era

The Jetty with Platform: A Distinctive Port Structure from North Africa

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