Salaisons et sauces de poissons en Italie du Sud et en Sicile durant l’Antiquité

The Bountiful Sea: Fish Processing and Consumption in Mediterranean Antiquity

“…The short contribution by Botte focuses on fish processing in Sicily and Italy from the pre-Roman period to post-second century AD. This contribution departs from his previous research (Botte 2009) by instead focusing on certain puzzling aspects of fish processing. The morphological and technical differentiation between the earlier salting vats in areas of Greek and Phoenician cultural influence in Sicily and the intriguing apparent absence of specialised containers for fish sauces and salted fish in the Greek area of Sicily and Magna Grecia are considered.…”

“…The dearth of concrete archaeological evidence for large-scale fish processing in the eastern Mediterranean has previously been noted (e.g. Wilson 2006;Botte 2009), despite written evidence for production in the region (Curtis 2016). Several of the papers in this volume attempt to tackle this issue from different vantage points, offering a range of perspectives.…”

“…Fish processing in the central Mediterranean is also documented by archaeological and historical sources, but research in this region has been comparatively less intense. The quantity of reported finds and number of research projects demonstrate this lower level of attention, which has persisted despite recognition of the area's role in dispersal of the fishprocessing industry during its formative centuries, and evidence for intense consumption of processed fish in the region during the Roman period (Botte 2009;Marzano 2013). The situation in the later first millennium BC is less clear.…”

The Tonnage of the Syracusia: a metrological reconsideration

“…And then what about the Sicilian keramia mentioned by Athenaeus? The inquiry conducted by Emmanuel Botte in Sicily led to the identification of a "tubular amphora" (Botte, 2009(Botte, , 2012. It is called…”

Fish Processing in Italy and Sicily During Antiquity

“…The following discussion is presented in detail inBotte (2009), where an extensive bibliography can be found. Here bibliographic references are only indicative, aiming to emphasise certain topics, or they refer to publications that appeared after 2009.…”