Dolia : The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheung, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dolia.

Wine industry--Rome.

Wine industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Dolia".

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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

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

Appendix 1. Tables

Appendix 2. Descriptions of Select Dolia

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Cheung, Caroline Dolia

ISBN:

9780691242996

0691242992

OCLC:

1419871436