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Attempts over the past few decades to utilize shipwrecks to answer long-term economic questions tend either to build models from single excavated and well preserved vessels, or rely on numbers as a broad index of intensity of trade through time. Drawing on Roman and Late Roman (…

This dissertation explores the experience of arriving in the port cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the Hellenistic through the Early Roman periods, describing the historical, environmental, and architectural backgrounds of these sites and offering an outline of t…