Dolia The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine 1st Edition by Caroline Cheung ISBN 0691242992 9780691242996

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ISBN 10: 0691242992 
ISBN 13: 9780691242996
Author: Caroline Cheung

The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possible The average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day, and the total annual volume of wine consumed in the imperial capital would have overflowed the Pantheon. But Rome was too densely developed and populated to produce its own food, let alone wine. How were the Romans able to get so much wine? The key was the dolium—the ancient world’s largest type of ceramic wine and food storage and shipping container, some of which could hold as much as two-thousand liters. In Dolia, classicist and archaeologist Caroline Cheung tells the story of these vessels—from their emergence and evolution to their major impact on trade and their eventual disappearance. Drawing on new archaeological discoveries and unpublished material, Dolia uncovers the industrial and technological developments, the wide variety of workers and skills, and the investments behind the Roman wine trade. As the trade expanded, potters developed new techniques to build large, standardized dolia for bulk fermentation, storage, and shipment. Dolia not only determined the quantity of wine produced but also influenced its quality, becoming the backbone of the trade. As dolia swept across the Mediterranean and brought wine from the far reaches of the empire to the capital’s doorstep, these vessels also drove economic growth—from rural vineyards and ceramic workshops to the wine shops of Rome. Placing these unique containers at the center of the story, Dolia is a groundbreaking account of the Roman Empire’s Mediterranean-wide wine industry.

Dolia The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine 1st Table of contents:

1. Food Storage, Containers, Empire
Studying Dolia and Tracing Their Development
Urban Growth and the Food Supply
An Empire Full of Containers
Organization of Chapters
The Data
2. Building Big: A New Craft Industry
Dolium Production: A Specialist Craft
Cosa: Early Developments
Pompeii: Improvements in the Craft
Ostia and Rome: New Standards
Opportunity and Profit in the Ceramic Valley
3. Dolia on the Farm: Conspicuous Production and Storage
Investing in Storage
Dolia for Wine and Olive Oil
Dolia and the Development of Villas in Central Italy
Celebrating Surplus
4. Dolia Abroad: Innovations in Transport
Breaking into Markets
Dressel 1 Amphorae and Trade: The Sestius Family’s Amphora Enterprise
Bulk Transport: The Piranus Family’s Dolium Tanker Ships
Profitable Packaging
5. Dolia in Iberia and Gaul
Agriculture and Storage in Iberia and Gaul
Dolium Development in the Northwest
Villas and Agricultural Production: A New Scale of Production
6. Dolia in Urbe: Expanding Urban Storage and Consumption
Trials and Tribulations with Technology: The Case of Cosa
Pompeii: Dolia in Urban Retail and Service
Rome and Ostia: The Warehouse of the World
Concentrating Wine and Wealth
7. Mending Costly Investments
Damaged Dolia
Dolium Repairs and the Repairers
Cosa: A Motley of Dolium Repairs
Pompeii: Experimentation in the Field and within the Workshop
Ostia and Rome: A Trend toward Production Repairs
Reinforcing and Repairing Dolia
Color Plates
8. From Valued to Trash: The Disappearance of Dolia
Dolium Reuse and Discard
Moving Away from a Specialized Container System
Barrels and a New Container System
9. Dolia: The Storage Container of the Roman Empire
Investors, Workshops, and Personnel
Choosing Container Technologies
The Legacy of Dolia
Guide to the Appendixes

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